299 patrone, though afterwards this civillity had like to have bene his ruine. And now, about l.\-I ichaelmasse 1648, he went to attend his duty att the parliament, carrying his whole family with him, because his house had bene so ruined by the warre that he could no longer lil'e in it, 'till it were either repair'd or new built. On comming to London, he himselfe fell into his old distemper of rheume, with more violence than ever, and being weary of those phisitians he had so long, with so littl e successe, employ'cl, he was recommended to a young doctor, sonne to old Dr. Rudgcly, whose excellence in his art was every where knowne, and his sonne being a very ingenious person, and considering himselfe, and consulting with his father, believ'd that all tlte other phisitians who had dealt wi th him, had mistaken his disease, which he finding more truly out, in a short space perfectly cur'd him of the gowt, and restor\! him, by God's blessing on his endeavours, to such a condition of health as he had not enioy'd for two yeares before. When he was well againe to attend the house, he found the presbyterian party so prevalent there, that the victories ohtein'cl by the army displeas'cl them, and so hot they grew in the zca le of their faction, that they from thenceforth resolv'd and endeavour'd to close with the common cnemie, that they might thereby compasse the destruction of their independent brethren. To this end, and to strengthen their faction, they go tt in again the late suspended members; whereof it was say'd, and by the consequence appear'd true, that Mr. Hollis, during his secession, had bene in France, and there meet ing with the queene, had pieced up an ungodly accommodation wi th her: although he were the man that, when at the beginning, some of the soberer men, who foresaw the sad issues of warre and victorie on either side, were labouring an accommodation, openly in ··he house . say'd, " He ab- " horr'ci that word Accommodation." After these were gotten in againe, and encourag'd by the presbitcrian ministers and the people in the city, they procur'd a revocation of the votes formerly. made, with such convincing reasons publickly cleclar'd for tlte same, why
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