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Rh but totally neglected, as deserts, and left without the Protection of the Government. 2. Those who complied, and were persecuted by the rabble: or those, who after they complied, were deprived by the council, because they did it not on the individual day appointed, when the proclamation came not to their hands against the time required, nor could they have the opportunity of observing it sooner, than when they obeyed it. 3. Those who were deprived by the council for non-compliance, there being not so much as twenty-four hours given some of them to advise in so weighty an affair. 4. Those who are now deposed by the Holy Inquisition of the Presbyterian Assembly."

More than three hundred Clergymen were thrust out of their houses and their parishes by the rabble, and then deprived of their possessions for no crime whatever, but solely on account of their views of Church government, and because they were obnoxious