3 76 Mr. N E A es IId Voi. of the the Pulpit ; the giving God thanks for Murder, ' and feizing by Fraud and Violence another's ' Office, and Living, and refuting the Communion ' to a Man refuting the Covenant ; there was never ' more Piety than in thofe Times of Confufion.' Neal, p. 594. Ifwe go from the City to the Camp of the Earl of Effex, we /ball find no lets Probity of Manners among them ; for molt of his Soldiers were fuch, as didnot fight fo muchfor Pay, as for Reli- gion, and the Liberties of their Country. Since Mr. Neal cries up this Rebel Army, fo much for the Prbity of their Manners ; I hope he will not take it amifs, if I give him an Inftanceor two of that kind, from two Original Letters, in the cuftody of worthy Friend of mine, from fome governing Officers in the Earl of x's Ar- my, to two active Members of the Houfe ofCom- mons. Gentlemen, We thall acquaint you, that an ' honeft Neighbour ofours, fobn Henley of Marfh, was to pay Igo 1. upon Bond, to Mr. Cadwal- laderCiker of BJter ; but the Debt belong'd, as we are informed, to Sir Richard Farmer a Papif ; and we having Intelligence thereof, have feized upon the Money for the ufe of the Parliament ; ' and 'fit belongs- to Sir Richard Farmer, he is both a rapifi, and in the King's Army ; if it belongs ' to Mr. Coker, he is an extreme Malignant ; and ' was Foreman of the Jury, upon the Trial of c thofe who were condemn' j at Oxford, and hath ' done nothing for the Parliament : fo that wecan- ' not doubt but the Parliament will conceive it fit- ting, that the Money {hall be made ufe of by ' us, for the t efe of the King and Parliament. B thut a * Nv ufcrfpr Coll.d}íons oftheRev. Dr: PhilipW illiams, Pre Went of St. j o%:r's college Cambridge. Vol. II. N°. 133. t Tho' theft Canting Rebels endeavour'd to take away the King's Life, by flawing aF him 3 their Acquittances for bor7 ácwing
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