[498] Baillie to Blair. Letters ii. 408.
[499] Reliquiae Baxterianae 53. ‘That the civil magistrates had nothing to do to determine of anything in matters of religion by constraint or restraint, but every man might not only hold but preach and do in matters of religion what he pleased.’
[500] Grignan, 25th Nov., to Brienne. ‘Cromwell et Yerton apparerament l’ont fait aller où il est, pour l’ôter d’entre les mains des agitateurs à le mettre entre celles de Hammond, qui doit à Cromwell toute sa fortune, et aussi pour empêcher en l’éloignant la communication avec les commissaires d’Ecosse, qui leur estoit suspecte.’
[501] Memoirs of Berkeley, in Maseres ii. 375. Ashburnham, whose narrative (ii. 108) gives a report of this, seems not to have followed the beat sources for the political considerations.
[502] ‘A schism being evidently destructif.’
[503] ‘It might not be expected that he should perish for his sake.’ More correctly printed in Ludlow’s Memoirs i. 230 than in Maseres.
[504] ‘If the royal consent to such bill or bills shall not be given in the House of Peers within such time as the Houses shall judge fit and convenient, that then such bill or bills shall nevertheless have the force and strength of an act or acts of Parliament.’ Parl. Hist. xvi. 400.
[505] Grignan to Brienne, Dec. 9. ‘En créance qu’estant en cette ville il les pourroit faire changer (les autres bills).’
[506] Burnet, Hamiltons 327.
[507] His Majesty’s answer, Dec. 28, 1647.