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 a paper which he called an Apology for himelf, and printing it ent it in a letter to Cromwell, wherein he charged the Lord General with being the principal intrument in in procuring the jut mentioned act. Upon the diolution of the long Parliament, he et all his engines at work, to obtain a pas for England, which proving ineffectual, he returned home without one in the beginning of June 1653, and was apprehended at London by the Lord-Mayor’s warrant on the 15th, upon which he printed a plea on the 28th, aerting the nullity of the act for his banihment, for want of a legal power in the Parliament that paed it, and being committed to Newgate in July, he ent thence a petition on the 12th to the newly erected Parliament, praying a dicharge from them; but that being neglected, he was brought on the 20th of Augut to his trial before the eions at the Old-Bailey; where, however, upon making the ame plea as before, and moreover that he was not legally hewn, by reaon of a kind of minomer in the indictment , to be the peron mentioned in the act, he was a econd time acquitted by the jury. Notwithtanding this he was hortly after conducted