308 yeare to goe of by lot, and 20 new ones to be supplied. It is true that at that time every man allmost was fancying a forme" of government, and angrie, when this came forth, that his invention tooke not place; and among these John Lilbnrne, a turbulentspirited man, that never was quiet in any thing, publisht libells, and the levellers made a disturbance with a kind of insurrection, which Cromwell soon appeased, they indeed being betrey'd by their owne leaders. But how the publique business went on, how Cromwell finisht the conquest of Ireland, how the angrie presbiterians spitt fire out of their pulpitts, and endeavour'd to blow up the people against the parliament, how they enter'd into a treasonable conspiracy with Scotland, who had now tcceiv'd and crown'd the sonne of the late king, who led them in hither in a greate armie, which the Lord of hosts discomfited; how our publick ministers were assassinated and mu•rthet'<l in Spayne and Holland, and how the Dutch, in this nusettlement of affaires, hoped to gaine by making warre, wherein they were beaten itncl brought to sue for peace, I shaH leave to the stories that were then written, and only in general! say that the hand of God was mightily seene in prospering and preserving the parliament till Cromwell's ambition unhappily interrupted them. Mr. Hutchinson was chosen into the first councell of state, much against his owne will; for, understanding that his cousin Ireton was one of the commissioners to nominate that councell, he sent his wife to him, before he went to the house, that morning they were to be named, to desire him, upon all the scores of kindred and kindnesse that had bene betweenc them, that he might be left out, in regard that he had allready wasted his time and his estate in the parliament service; and having neither had recompense for his loSS!'JS, nor any u A natural consequence of great popular revolutions, in which the modern French have had ;he glory of outdoing all the world!
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