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 Whereupon the Knight was so moved and disordered, as also with the operation which mine and his own Speech had upon the house, that hee absented himself ever afterwards, endeavouring the dissolution thereof, upon no other visible ground (besides somewhat of his own natural giddiness) then out of fear of being convicted and punished for the Calumnies & aspersions cast upon mee: I say upon no other visible ground; forasmuch as this Knight, by his several Sermons, Protestations and Addresses (as well those drawn as those subscribed by himself) appeared forward and earnest for a Single Person, (without being averse to Kingship it self, as Major Low was very sensible of) and even for the Person of Richard late Lord Protector, whom hee preached up to have double the portion of his Fathers spirit, notwithstanding his said Father (in the Address by himself penned) be stiled the Chariot and Horsemen of Israel. And as auxiliary arguments to what is here alledged, it is to be noted, that this Knight, a little after hee turned Anabaptist, did, to the offence of his Church, appear in Scarlet like a Doctor at