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

§ 65. When I had stayed here, and at Longford Garrison about two Months or more, and had redeemed my Father out of Prison at Lillshoul, I returned to Coventry, and my Neighbours would not stay behind: (the recital of Military Passage there and elsewhere, belongeth not to my present purpose, but as it concerneth the History of my own Life, and therefore I leave them to such as write the History of those Wars): When I came to Coventry, I settled in my old Habitation and Employment, and followed my Studies there in quietness for another Year. But whereas whilst I rode up and down, my Body had more Health than of a long time before, when I settled to my Studies in a Sedentary Life (and grieved for the Calamitous Condition of the Land) I fell weaker than ever I was before: And going to London was long under the Cure of Sir Theodore Meyers, and somewhat recovered, returned again.

§ 65. When I had stayed here, and at Longford Garrison about two Months or more, and had redeemed my Father out of Prison at Lillshoul, I returned to Coventry, and my Neighbours would not stay behind: (the recital of Military Passage there and elsewhere, belongeth not to my present purpose, but as it concerneth the History of my own Life, and therefore I leave them to such as write the History of those Wars): When I came to Coventry, I setled in my old Habitation and Imployment, and followed my Studies there in quietness for another Year. But whereas whilst I rode up and down, my Body had more Health than of a long time before, when I settled to my Studies in a Sedentary Life (and grieved for the Calamitous Condition of the Land) I fell weaker than ever I was before: And going to London was long under the Cure of Sir Theodore Meyers, and somewhat recovered, returned again.

§ 66. The Garrison of Coventry consisted half of Citizens, and half of Country-men: the Country-men were such as had been forced from their own Dwellings, the most religious Men of the Parts round about, especially from Birmingham, Sutton-Coldfield, Tamworth, Nuneaton, Hinkley, Rugby, &c. These were Men of great Sobriety and Soundness of Understanding as any Garrison heard of in England: But one or two that came among us out of New England (of Sir Henry Vane's Party there) and one Anabaptist Taylor, had almost troubled all the Garrison, by infecting the honest Soldiers with their Opinions: But they found not that Success in Coventry, as they had done in Cromwell's Army. In public I was fain to preach over all the Controversies against the Anabaptists first, and then against the Separatists;