[384] Quakers' Sufferings, i. 70.
[385] Cromwellian Diary, ii. 112.
[386] Sewel, i. 158.
[387] Cromwellian Diary, i. 46. His trial has been already mentioned in this volume, p. 133.
[388] His dying words place him in a much better light than that in which he is commonly viewed.—See Sewel's Hist., i. 207.
[389] Cromwellian Diary, i. 216. The petitioners were called in, to the number of thirty, and Mr. Sprigg made a short speech, saying that they did not countenance the wicked, and were no partakers of their crime; but upon the common account of liberty, found it upon their spirits to become petitioners in this thing, leaving it to God to direct the House.
See the beautiful apology for Nayler in Lamb's Elia, Quakers' Meeting.
[390] p. 16.
[391] Baxter says Sir H. Vane spoke against him in the House of Commons; and he adds, "I confess my writing was a means to lessen his reputation."—Life and Times, p. i. 76.
[392] Baxter's Life and Times, p. i. 77.