The Clarendon Historical Societys Reprints Series Iii
The Clarendon Historical Societys Reprints Series Iii
Edinburgh Clarendon Historical Society
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But afterwards when they resolved to carry on their Designs, without waiting for the Consent of the IMagistrate, and entred into Combina- tions, when they begun to defame the Government with ridiculous Pasquils, and boasted of their Numbers and Strength, and in some Places brake out into Tumults ; then it appeared, that it was Faction, not Zeal, that animated them, and upon that the Queen found it necessary to restrain them, yet she did it with all the Moderation^ that could consist with the Pe...ace of the Church and State. * * Compare this with Palmer's Vindication, page 90. Line 9. 24 Ubc ClarenDon ibistorical Society IReprints. 25 We find this Account recited at large in the History of the Reformation, as the most authentic Relation of the Puritans Behaviour in that Queens Reign, by which the Author seems to justify the Necessity and Expediency of the Laws, which were then made to restrain and awe the Faction ; but how that Author came to change his Mind and declaim against those Laws as severe, and a Blemish to that glorious Reign, is not so easy to be reconciled ; especially when we consider, that he had formerly complained of that Queens Successors, for not holding the Reins of Government with the like Steadiness of hand which he thinks, would have prevented the Nation (how head-strong soever) from running into those desperate Confusions, which afterwards ensued.
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