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 berty, he wrote a friendly letter to Cromwell, then warmly attacked by the Prebyterians, September the 11th, he joined with everal others in a large petition to the Houe of Commons againt a peronal treaty with the King; preently after which, he went down into the North to take poeion of ome effects that had been aigned to him, in puruance of the lat mentioned vote of the Commons, Returning to London in a hort time, with a deign to procure the ettling of a new model of government before the King’s execution, which was then reolved on by the leading men in the army , he had everal meetings with Ireton and others upon that affair, but the