Chap. VII. The HISTORY of the PURITANS.. 645 ment of the church, and accordingly died a dutiful fon of the church JE. Charles I. of England. ' 164o. Mr. PYM had the leading influence in the houle of commons, and f,., 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 lays, though he was an enemy to the arminians, heprof to be very entirelyfor the dolrine and defcipline of the church.of England, and was never thought to be for vio- lent meafures, till the king came to the houfe of commons, ,and attempted 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 bad an indignation, (lays lord Clarendon) againfl the in- dependents, nor was he affetled to the prefbyterians, any otherwife than as they con_itúted a party to oppofe the others, but was well pleafed with the government of the church. Sir H. VANE the elder did the king's affairs an unfpeakable prejudice, SirH. Vane, and yet in hisjudgment he liked the government both of church and !late; fen. nay he not only appeared highly conformable hinfelf, but exceeding _harp again/l thole that were not. Sir JOHN HOTHAM was the gentleman who (hut the gates of Hull Sir John again(t the king ; and in a (ally that he made upon the king's forces Hotham. (hed the firft blood that was fpilt in the civil war, and was the firft his majefty proclaimed a traitor; and yet his lordfhip declares, he was very well afetled to the government. His lordfhip is a little more dubious about the famous Mr. HAM?- Mr. Hamp- DEN, but Pays, that molt people believed his difiike was rather to force den. churchmen, than to the ecclefia/lical government of the church. I might mention Mr. WHITLOCK, SELDEN, LANGHORNE, and Of the earl others, who are reprefented without the leaft inclination to prefbytery.; of Effie, but it is fufficient to obferve from his lordfhip, that all the earl of Ef- party fez's party in both houfes, were men offuch principles, that they de/ired no alteration in the court or government, but only of the perfons that abled in it ; nay the chief officers of his army were fo 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. Vane, jun. and shortly after Mr. Hamp. lnrt others 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 force few to remove foun- dations, they had not the courage and confidence to communicate it. This
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