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Richard Baxter's penitent confession and his necessary vindication in answer to a book called…
Richard Baxter's penitent confession and his necessary vindication in answer to a book called The second part of the mischiefs of separation, written by an unnamed author with a preface to Mr. Cantianus D. Minimis, in answer to his letter which extorted this publication.
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1691
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
20. When he was no longer able to bear the peoples coming to my House, (though he conversed with me placidly, and never spake to me against it) he went to the King and got his Order to the Bishop Hinchman, and by him to Justice Rosse and Auditor Philips for my Imprisonment. And when these Justices at Brentford Examined me, they shut the Doors against all Witnesses, and would let none in but their Clerk, though Alderman Ashhurst, Captain Yarrington, and many others at the Door claimed open audience as a Legal Privilege: And after they raised false reports of my words to them, when I was allowed no one Witness.
20. When he was no longer able to bear the peoples coming to my House, (though he converst with me placidly, and never spake to me against it) he went to the King and got his Order to the Bishop Hinchman, and by him to Justice Rosse and Auditor Philips for my Imprisonment. And when these Justices at Brainford Examined me, they shut the Doors against all Witnesses, and would let none in but their Clerk, though Alderman Ashhurst, Captain Yarrington, and many others at the Door claimed open audience as a Legal Priviledge: And after they raised false reports of my words to them, when I was allowed no one Witness.
21. I lay quietly in New Prison, though kept waking by the constant noise of rude Prisoners, and knocking under me at the Gate. And upon my Habeas Corpus all the four Judges of the Common Pleas were for my Deliverance.
22. When I was delivered the Parliament making a new Act against Conventicles added three new clauses which drove me to dwell in another County: Where also I went constantly Morning and Evening to the public Church and Common Prayer, and gave 2 l. per Annum to increase the Ministers Maintenance.