She was exceeding kind to her husband's cbaplaines, independent ministers, till the armie return'd to be nearer London, and then the presbyterian ministers quite chang'd the·lady into such a bitter aversion against them, that they could not endure to come into the generall 's presence while she was there, and the generall had an unquiet!, unpleasant life with her, who drove away fi·om him many of those friends, in whose conversat ion he had found such sweetenesse. At Nottingham they had gollen a very able minister into the greate church, but a bitter presbiterian; him and his brethren my Lady :Fairfax caress'd with so much kindnesse, that they grew impudent to preach up their faction, open ly , in the pulpitt, and to revile the others, and at length would not suffer any of the army chaplaines to preach in the towne. They then coming to the governo r and complaining of their unkind usage, he invited t hem to come and preach in his house, which when it 11·as knowne they did, there was a greate concourse of people came thither to them; and the · presbiterians, when they heard it, were madd with rage, not only against them, but against the governor, . who accidentally. gave them another 0ccasion about the same time, a littl e before the general came. When formerly the presbyterian ministers had forc'd him for quietnesse sake to goe and breake up a private meeting in the cannoneer's chamber, there were found some notes concerni ng pmdobaptismc, which being brought into the governor's lodgings,, his wife having then more leisure lo read then he, having perus'd. them and compar'd them with the scriptures, found not what to say against the truths they asserted, concern ing the misapplicalion of that ordinance to infants: but being then. young and mod<.>st, she thought it a kind of virtue to submitt to the iudg-ement and practice of most churches, rather then to defend a singulm: opinion of herownc, she not being then cnlighten'd in that greate mistake of the nationall churches: but in this yeare she, hap'ning to be with child, communicated her doubts to her husband, and clesir'd him to. 2 r .
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