[18] Clarendon's State Papers, iii. 440, March 18.
[19] This petition to Richard followed the humble representation presented on the 6th of April.
[20] Prynne got in for a few hours, and had an angry altercation with Haselrig and Vane.
[21] Parl. Hist., iii. 1553.
[22] Of the popularity of Fleetwood amongst "Anabaptists and other sectaries," and of the importance attributed to him by lookers on, there are illustrations in the correspondence of the French ambassador,—Guizot, i. 246.
[23] Howe's Life, by Rogers, 94.
[24] Rogers, 91. Noble's Protectorate House, i. 172, 180, 176.
[25] Noticed in an article on Keble in Macmillan's Magazine for March, 1869. Baxter speaks favourably of Richard Cromwell. His wife, who died in 1676, whilst he was abroad, is spoken of as a prudent, godly, practical Christian. It appears from one of her letters, that, after the Protectorate, she "wanted some scholar or godly man to reside at Hursley, to minister spiritual consolation under her present sorrows."—Noble, i. 343.
[26] Neal (iv. 209) relates this, and thinks the story probable; but Orme, in his Life of Owen, p. 213, disputes it. Respecting what Baxter says about Owen (Life and Times, i. 101) see an Historical Account of my own Life, by Calamy, i. 378.
[27] As I am not aware of these important entries having been published by any one else I introduce them here:—