Vory oft4e Puritans, examin'a, 373 the meaneft Handmaid in the Kingdom, tho' the Wife, Daughter, and Sifter of a King, &c. Then was there nothing but expelling Members out of the Houle, on the leaft Information. If any of thofe Whelps did but bark againft any one, and could but fay, he was bufy in the Country ; nothing but fequeftring, impeachingof Treafon, turning Men and their Families, turning Wives and Children to ftarve : fo many Committees and Sub-Committees ofExaminations, Sequeftrations, ' 5th and loth Parts, &c. made in City and Country ; and fome of the molt faátious, bufy, beggarly Men put in, as fitteft Tools for fuck Matters to work by, to rake Men to the Bones, and take all advantages to ruin them. This was ' a great breaking of heart to all honeft Men, e- ' fpecially to thofe in the Houfe, who being pre- ' fent, and Eye-Witneffes to the Management of Affairs, eafily difcovered the drift of thofe Per- ' fons ; which made thole Blood- Suckers conceive a mortal hatred againft them, and in truth againft all Gentlemen, and thofe who had too great an In- ' tereft, and too large a Stake in the Kingdom, to engage with them in their Defign, of perpetua- ting the War to an abfolute Confufion.' And yet fuch was the great Attachment of fame at that time to that Fag-enil of a Parliament, that we read of one * She-Dr votee in Lime-Street, who durft not in Confcience take Phyfic, without an Or- der of Parliament, from the Houfe of Commons, for fo doing. Neal, p. 592. Betides the Monthly Fait, the o- pening the War, gave rife to another Exercife of Pray- er, and Exhortation to Repentance, for anHour every Morning in the Week. Moll of the Citizens of Lon- don, having fame near Relation, or Friend in the * Perfecutio Undecima, p. ro. $b 3 iirmy
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