Chap. VII. The HISTORY of the PURITANS.. 645 ment of the church, and accordingly died a dutiful fon of the church 4Charles I. of England. Mr. PYM had the leading influence in the houfe of commons, and 1y,., pym, was in truth the molt popular man, and molt able to do hurt of any who lived in his time ; and yet lord Clarendon Pays, though he was an enemy to the arminians, heprofß to be very entirelyfor the dotirine and difcipline of the church.of .England, and was never thought to be for vio- lent meafures, till the king came to the houfe of commons, andattempted to feize him amongfl thefive members. DENZIL HOLLIS, Efq; after the reftoration promoted to the dignity Mr. Hollis. of a baron, was at the head of all the parliament's councils till the year 1647. He had an indignation, (lays lord Clarendon) againfl the in- dependents, nor was he affected to the prefbyterians, any otherwife than as they conflituted a party to oppofe the others, but was well pleated with the government of the church. Sir H. VANE the elder did the king's affairs an unfpeakable prejudice, Sir H. Vane, and yet in hisjudgment he liked the government both of church andflate;fen nay he not only appeared highly conformable himfelf, but exceeding(harp again/l thole that were not, Sir JOHN HOTHAM was the gentleman who /hut the gates of Hull Sir John againft the king ; and in a Illy that he made upon the king's forces Hotham. fhed the firft blood that was fpilt in the civil war, and was the find his majefly proclaimed a traitor; and yet his lordfhip declares, he was very well afeEled to the government. His lordfhip is a little more dubious about the famous Mr. RAMP- Mr. Hatnp DEN, but Pays, that molt people believed his diflike- was rather to Tome den. churchmen, than to the ecclefia/iical government of the church. I might mention Mr. WHITLOCK, SELDEN, LANGHORNE, and Of the earl others, who are reprefented without the lead inclination to prefbytery; of Etfexs but it is fuflicient to obferve from his lordfhip, that all the earl of Ef- P °rtp' fex's party in both hours, were men offuch principles, that they defired no alteration in the court or government, but only of the perfins that acted in it ; nay the chief officers of his army were fi zealous for the liturgy, that they would not hear a man as a minifler that had not epifcopal ordi- nation. Nathaniel Fiennes, Efq; Sir H Ilan, jun. and fhortly after Mr. Hamp. Andothers. den, were believed to be for root and branch ; yet (lays his lordfhip) Mr. PYM was not of that mind, nor Mr.HoLLIs, nor any of the north- ern men, or any of thofe lawyers who drove on molt furioufly with them; all of whom were well pleafed with the government of the church; for though it was in the hearts of fome few to remove foun- dations, they had not the courage and confidence to communicate it. This
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