[268] See Journals under dates.
[269] Mercurius Publicus.
[270] Williams' Life of Philip Henry, 91, 92.
[271] The Cedar's sad and solemn fall.
[272] I may mention the Presbyterian Lash or Noctroft's Maid whipt—a piece of coarse and filthy satire—and an Antidote against Melancholy, made up in Pills; compounded of witty ballads, and jovial and merry catches, in which there is the song of the Hot-headed Zealot, and The Schismatic Rotundos.
[273] In none of the Nonconformist publications of that day, have I ever seen anything like the scurrility poured upon them by their opponents.
[274] Lords' Journals.
[275] Ibid.
[276] "At Court things are in a very ill condition, there being so much emulation, poverty, and the vices of drinking, swearing, and loose amours, that I know not what will be the end of it but confusion. And the clergy so high, that all people that I meet with do protest against their practice."—Pepys' Diary, 1661, August 31.
[277] The letter is dated December 25th, 1660. Endorsed by Secretary Nicholas as received October 9th, 1661.—State Papers, Dom. Charles II.