the condition of affaires abroad. The queene, being suffer'd topasse through Nottinghamshire by those forces which were sent downc thither to have prevented her, ioyn'd with Prince Rupcrt and came to the king, and was by the parliament voted traitor for many actions, as pawning the crown iewells in Holland, encOtu·aging the rebellion in Ireland, heading a papisticall armie in England, &c. The Earle of Essex his armie lay sick about London for recruits; Sr. William Wailer, after many victori es in the west, was at length totally routed, and returned to London, Prince Maurice and Sr. Ralph Hopton having recover'd and possess t allmost the whole west of England for the king. The north my lord Newcastle's annie commanded so fully, that they were advanct into Nottingham and Lincolneshire, and the adjacent count ies . . The parliament, being in this low condition, had agreed with Scotland, and en ter'd into a solemne national! league and covenant, which was taken throughout " in the same cause, he aUowed that liberty of conscience to others which he c1aimed H for himself." The editor th ought it hi s duty1 upon this suggestion1 to make furth er enquiry, and has in pursuance of it been furni shed by a respectable Friend, Mr. Barker_, Surgeon, at Colchester, with the two fo1lowing extracts, together with some others, which will appear in their proper places.-G. Fox's Journal, fol. ed. p. £7. HI went to the Steeple u House, at Notti ngham, during the time of divine worship, addressed the people, and " was committed to pri son. \Vhen the Assizes came on, there was one moved to come u and offer himself up for me, body for body, yea, 1ife also: but when I should have " been brought before the judge, the sheriff's man being somewhat long in fetching n me to the Session's-house, the judge was risen before 1 came, at which I understood H he was somewhat offended. So I was returned to pri son, and put into the common u gaol; and the Lord's power was great among friend s, but the people· began to be very. u rude, rc>lw1·ejore tlte governor r.if tlte castle sent down soldiers and disperstd tltem, and u ofto· that tlteg r~e1·e quiet." Sewell's 1-Iist. of Quakers, fol. ed . p. 22. H Now though u the people began to be very rude, yet tlte governor of tlte castle was .so verg moderate., . ''that he scut clown soldiers to disperse them."
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