Reliquiæ Baxterianæ, or, Mr. Richard Baxters narrative of the most memorable passages of his…

where we all agreed, that such as had incurred the King's Displeasure, by being Members of any Courts of Justice, in Cromwell's days, should quietly recede, and we should try if we could get the Corporation restored, and the rest continued, and more fit Men added, that the Land might be recovered: And because of our other Business, I had ready access to the Lord Chancellor, they desired me to solicit him about it: so Mr. Ashurst and I did follow the Business. The Lord Chancellor at the very first was ready to further us, approving of the Work, as that which could not be for any Faction, or Evil end, but honourable to the King and Land. And he told me, That Beddingfield could have no right to that which he had sold, and that the right was in the King, who would readily grant it to the good use intended: and that we should have his best assistance to recover it. And indeed I found him real to us in this Business from first to last: yet did Beddingfield by the friendship of the Attorney General, and some others, so delay the Business, as bringing it to a Suit in Chancery, he kept Mr. Ashurst in a Twelve-months trouble before he could recover the Land: but when it came to Judgment, the Lord Chancellor spake very much against him, and granted a Decree for the New Corporation. For I had procured of him before, the King's Grant of a New Corporation; and Mr. Ashurst and my self had the naming of the Members: And we desired Mr. Robert Boyle (a worthy Person of Learning and a Public Spirit, and Brother to the Earl of Cork) to be President (now called Governor) and I got Mr. Ashurst to be Treasurer again, and some of the old Members, and many other godly, able Citizens made up the rest: Only we left the Nomination of some Lords to his Majesty, as not presuming to nominate such, (And the Lord Chancellor, Lord Chamberlain, and six or seven more were added). But it was Mr. Boyle and Mr. Ashurst, with the Citizens, that did the Work: But especially the care and trouble of all was on Mr. Ashurst. And thus that Business was happily restored.

where we all agreed, that such as had incurred the King's Displeasure, by being Members of any Courts of Justice, in Cromwell's days, should quietly recede, and we should try if we could get the Corporation restored, and the rest continued, and more fit Men added, that the Land might be recovered: And because of our other Business, I had ready access to the Lord Chancellour, they desired me to solicit him about it: so Mr. Ashurst and I did follow the Business. The Lord Chancelloor at the very first was ready to further us, approving of the Work, as that which could not be for any Faction, or Evil end, but honourable to the King and Land. And he told me, That Beddingfield could have no right to that which he had sold, and that the right was in the King, who would readily grant it to the good use intended: and that we should have his best assistance to recover it. And indeed I found him real to us in this Business from first to last: yet did Beddingfield by the friendship of the Attorney General, and some others, so delay the Business, as bringing it to a Suit in Chancery, he kept Mr. Ashurst in a Twelve-months trouble before he could recover the Land: but when it came to Judgment, the Lord Chancellour spake very much against him, and granted a Decree for the New Corporation. For I had procured of him before, the King's Grant of a New Corporation; and Mr. Ashurst and my self had the naming of the Members: And we desired Mr. Robert Boyle (a worthy Person of Learning and a Publick Spirit, and Brother to the Earl of Cork) to be President (now called Governour) and I got Mr. Ashurst to be Treasurer again, and some of the old Members, and many other godly, able Citizens made up the rest: Only we left the Nomination of some Lords to his Majesty, as not presuming to nominate such, (And the Lord Chancellour, Lord Chamberlain, and six or seven more were added). But it was Mr. Boyle and Mr. Ashurst, with the Citizens, that did the Work: But especially the care and trouble of all was on Mr. Ashurst. And thus that Business was happily restored.