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 to my present visible Governours, (it being alledged against me, that I had term'd such as were otherwise, to be as worms and Magots in the Guts of a Commonwealth) I was counted an Enemy even to all the Sects and Factions; and although none could say, I laboured to promote or suppress any of them, yet they all severally apprehended the contrary, and that I stood as a block in the way to each of their Ends; The which put them upon projects to remove me in order to get one of their own party and friends substituted in my room; To which end they would all maliciously watch my haltings, put the worst sense upon all my dubious actions, lay snares to make me stumble, &c.

11ly, I finding the Lord Henry Cromwel to be a person of much Honour and Integrity to his trust, as also of a firm faith and zeal to God and his Church, and withall to have translated me from a stranger into his bosome, thinking me worthy of the nearest relation to himself, and one who when all tricks and devices were used to surprise by meme by [sic] foul play, would still be careful I might have fair; I did (as