234. share by fortie shillings a man; Chadwick was to be collonell of the towne regiment, and Mason maior; White collooell of the horse regiment, and Palmer, the priest, his maior; and all the governor's friends to be turn'd out, and their places dispos'd to creatures of theirs, who, drawn 011 with these hopes, \vere very active to worke the governor and his party out of the opinion of all men. They forgott the pu bli ck interest in this private <]Uarrel l, taking in all the mallignant and debosb t people that would ioyne with them, to destroy the governor whom they hated for his unmoved fidellity in his trust, and his severe res triction of lewdnesse and Yice: but because he protected and f>t~our'd godly men that were sober, although they sepamtcd from the publick assemblies, thi s open'll wide tbe mouths of <JIJ the priests and all their idolaters, and they weJ'e willing enough to leu the children of hell crie out with them to make the iowder noyse, and as 're bare since scene the whole cause and party ruin'd by the same practise, ·so at that time the zcalotts for Cod and the parliament turn'd all Lhc hate they had to the enemies of both, and call\! them to asoist in c:,ec nting their ma llicc upon the faithful! ser- ,·ant and generous champion of tbe Lord's and his country's iust cause. J\nd now the name of Cavallier was no more rerncmber'd, Castilian bLing the tenue of reproach with which they branded all the govcmor's friends, and lamentable it was to behold how those wretched men fell away under this temptation, not only from pnblick.spiri.ted ncssc, but from sobriety and honest moral! conversation; not only conniving at and permitting the wickednessc of others, but themselves conl'crsing in taYerns and brothells, till at last-Millington and White we1:e so cnsnar'd that they married a couple of alehouse wenches, to tiJCir open shame and the conviction of the whole country of the mine 1 i I' CS they led, and some reflection on the parliament itself'e, as much as the miscarriage of a ' member could cast on it, when 1\fillingtnu, a man of sixty, professing relig ion, and having but lately buried a religious matronly gentlewoman, should goe to
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