C30) An 1z " The Queen Pays Mr. Strype, was Val. 1. p' 38'" not backward, upon herfcryl coming to the Crown, to thew her merciful cc _Nature (fo different therein from " her late Sifter) toward the aiEled " Profeffors of the Gofpel in Bonds " and Imprifonment ; and for putting " a fpeedy Stop to the cruel Methods ufed before, for the detesdting them cc cc in all Places, and taking them up by a kind of Spanifh Inquifition ; fo " as became aPrince that intended not " to rule with Rigour, but Juftice and " Clemency. One of her earliefl Asti- ¢` ons was to releafe the Captives, and cc to reftore Liberty to the Free-born. " Therefore Orders from above were " tent to the Keepers of the Prifons, " wherefoever thefe honeft and pious " People were detain'd, that they " fhould fet them at Liberty, taking " their own Bonds for their Appear- cc ance, whenfoever they fhould be " call'd to anfwer." Betides, fetting thefe poor Prifoners at Liberty, and enquiring into the Execution of a Com- muon in the late Reign againft Loi- lards, and calling the Commifïioners to an Account for their Proceedings, the Queen publifhed a Proclamation. where- in fhe allow'd the Gofpel and Epiftle for the Day, theTenCommandments, the
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