201 !t will not be amisse, in this place, to carry on the parliament ·story, that we may the better iudge things at home, when we know servil ity and subserviency to the usurpations of the crown ; but whose hopes 'would ha\'C been totally destroyed if Presbytery obta ined a full and firm establishment. It is extraordi nary that al most a1l the historians put th e cause for the effect, and suggest that many members of the parliament, and at the head of them Cromwell, rai sed this faction to obtain their own exaltation; whereas intolerancy raised it in the. nation at large, and especially in-the army, and Cromwell antiled himself of it when raised.- In a scarce book, called Anglia Rediviva, or the Success of the Army under Fairfax, wr itten by Joshua Sprigge, he says, " the army was, what by example and justice, ((kept in good order both respectively to itself and the country: there were many of ((them differing in opinion, yet not in nction nor business; they all ag reed to preserve u the kingdom; they prospered in their unity more than uniformity, and whatever ((their opinions were, they plundered none with them, they betrayed none with them, u nor disobeyed the state with them, and they were more visibly pious and peaceable u jn thei r op inions tha.n many we call orthodox." Let the blame of all the mi sfortunes that .flowed from it rest with those who gave di sturbance to such men, not to those who screened them from persecution. The chief of the~e cannoneers was that Lawrence Col in mentioned in a former note, page llS. He continued at Nottingham after all the wars were over, but being persecuted on account of his religion, applied to Cromwell for protection, and was eJl€c tually screened by him from his persecutors; he lived to more than ninety yC'ars; his descenda11ts rose -to opulence, and one of them founded a very handsome hospital. This family united themselves to that of Langford, and both being molested on the score of nGnconformity, were peculiarly protected by James the Second, and stood stedfustly by him at the revolution, at which time he got many sectaries to join the Catholics, anq make common cause against the church of England . By this turn of events and opinions L;ngford Col in, Esq. before mentioned came to be the head of the country, Jacobite, or anti-revolutionist party, wh ile the l)lumtres and Hutchinsons embraced the Hanover or YVhig party, as mentioned in the note, page 11.3, just spoke n of. Since the public<,tion of the first edition, there has appeared a very candid critique of this work in the Annual llegister f.Or 1807, containing the 'followi ng remark. "It u may be mentiuned as an additional proof of Mr. I-I utchinson's rectitude, that when u George Fox, the found er of the Q11akers, was imp risoned at Nott ingham, he pro- ~r tectcd him; thus proving th at, unlike the greate r number of those who were engaged
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