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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 me foul play, would still be careful I might have fair; I did (as
