1645 THOMAS SWADLIN. Presbyterians Asked to Stop Civil War in Return for Liberty of Conscience. Vellum if ever they dare to

if ever they dare to pollute our free future with their foul presence

and tide marks toward gutter on first few gatherings

Rowe to Countess of Hartford

Duty of the Government and the Citizens in the Present Crisis

1645 THOMAS SWADLIN. Presbyterians Asked to Stop Civil War in Return for Liberty of Conscience. Vellum if ever they dare toVery rare and rather important tractate by Royalist anti Cromwellian divine, Thomas Swadlin. He had been removed from his living and imprisoned by Cromwell and the Puritan Parliament. From prison he appears to have issued the present letter, anonymously, to John Glynne, a Welsh Lawyer who became Lord Chief Justice under Oliver Cromwell. Glynne himself was a Presbyterian. It drips with sarcasm; Glynne had in fact issued the orders that led to Swadlin