266 take another course, which was to carrie the king to Newcastle, where they againe sold him to the parliament for a summc of monie. The country now being clear'd of all the enemies garrisons, Collonell Hutchinson went up to London, to attend his duty there, and to serve his country, as faithfully, in the capacity of a senator, as he had before, in that of a souldier. When. he came there, he found a very bitter spiritt of discord and envie raging, and the presbyterian faction, of which were most of those lords and others, that had bene lay'd aside by the self-denying ordinance, endeavouring a violent persecution, upon the account of conscience, against those who had in so short a time accomp!i,ht, by God's blessing, that vi<;tory which he was not pleas'd to bestow on them. Their directory of worship was at length sent forth for a three yeares trial!, and such as could not conforme to it, mark'd out with an evil eie, hated and persecuted under the name of Separatists.' Coli. Hutchinson, who abhorr'd that mallitious zeale and imposing spiritt which appcar'd in them, was soon taken notice of~ for one of the independent faction/[whose heads were accounted Pierrepont, Vane, St. Johns, and some few other grandees, being men that excell'd in wisdome and utterance, and the rest believ'd to adhere to them, only out of faction, as if those who did not vaine-gloriously fay out themselves, without necessitie, but chose rather to heare and vote, had had no understanding of right and ·wrong, but from the dictates of these great oracles.] Though, lo spcake the u Mrs. Hutcl1inson difl'ers from most of those who have written on the subject, re- :~pectiug the rise and progress of the deadly feuds between the presbyterians and independents; but she diH'crs not from the truth and reason. Certainly the most impartial historian is Rapin; hut he, though a presbyterian, and labouring their defence, effects their condemnation . Vol. ii. p. 62:4, he says, a They thought themselves in slavery if "themselves did not command." '~' hat need of more words? x All that is corftained between these two brackets had lines struck through it in the manuscript) and one of the names defaced.
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