30~ whether some other of them gott it out, he knew not, but he much wonder'cl, after the change and scrutinie into all these things, that he never heard the least mention of it. By this violent proceed ing of the presbiterians they finisht the destruction of him in whose restitution they were now so fiercely engag'd, for this gave heart to the vanquisht cavaliers, and such courage to the captive king· that it harden'd him and them to their ruine. On the other side it so frighted all the honest people, that it made them as violent in their zeale to pull downe, as the others were in their madnesse to restore, this kingly idol!, and the armie, who were principally levell'd and mark'd out for the sacrifice and peace offering of this ungodly reconcilliation, had some colour to persue their late arrogant nsurpations upon that authority which it was their d nty rather to have obey'd then interrupted; but the debates of that night, which produc'd such destructive votes to them and all their friends, being reported to them, they the next morning came and seiz'd about., of the members as they were going to the house, and carried them to a house hard by, where they were for the present kept prisoners. Most of the presbiterian faction, distasted at this insolence, would no more come to their seates in the house; but the gentlemen who were of the other faction, or of none at all, but look'd upon themselves as call'd out to manage a publick trust for their country, forsooke not their seates whil.e they were permitted to sitt in the house.' Coil. Hutchinson was one of these who infinitely dislik'd the action of the annie, and had once before bene instrumentall in preventing such another rash q Dugdale gives a l i :~t of the secluded members, forty-one in number, and hence we are furuished with some names which will serve to establish a pecul iar fact stated at the latter end of the history of the rcpublick. r Whi1elock, who was exactly in the same predicament, acted in the same manner, and gives the same reasons tOr it.
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