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who were scarcely leſs strenuous or zealousin the cause. W[.]hile1 the Villains of the time would make too long a list to be written or read; I shall therefore content myself with mentioning the leaders ofthe Gang. Cromwell, Fairfax, Hampden,& Pym may be all considered as theoriginal Causers of all the disturbancesDistreſses, & Civil Wars in which England for many years was embroiled. In this reign as well as in that of Elizabeth, I amobliged in spite of my Attachment to the Scotch, to consider them as equally guilty with the generality of the English, since they dared to think differently from theirSovereign, to forget the Adoration which as

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