Lords, Capel, Holland, and Hamilton, who were beheaded.  By this learning in the Law he became worthy of the degree of a serjeant, and sometimes to go the Circuit, till for misdemeanor he was petition’d against.  But for a taste of his abilities, and the more to reingratiate himself, he printed, in the year 1650, a very remarkable Book, called ’The Government of the People of England, precedent and present the same. Ad subscribentes confirmandum, Dubitantes informandum, Opponentes convincendum; and underneath Multa videntur quae non sunt, multa sunt quae non videntur.  Under that ingraven two hands joyn’d, with the motto, Ut uniamur; and beneath a sheaf of arrows, with this device, Vis unita fortior; and to conclude, Concordia parvae res crescunt discordia dilabuntur.’  A most hieroglyphical title, and sufficient to have supplied the mantlings and atchievements of the family!  By these parents he was sent to Oxford, with intention to breed him up to the ministry.  There in a short time he enter’d himself into the company of some young students who were used to fast and pray weekly together; but for their refection fed sometimes on broth, from whence they were commonly called Grewellers; only it was observed that he was wont still to put more graves than all the rest in his porridge.  And after that he pick’d acquaintance not only with the brotherhood at Wadham Colledge, but with the sisterhood too, at another old Elsibeth’s, one Elizabeth Hampton’s, a plain devout woman, where he train’d himself up in hearing their sermons and prayers, receiving also the Sacrament in the house, till he had gain’d such proficience, that he too began to exercise in that Meeting, and was esteem’d one of the preciousest young men in the University.  But when thus, after several years’ approbation, he was even ready to have taken the charge, not of an ‘admiring drove or heard,’ as he now calls them, but of a flock upon him, by great misfortune the King came in by the miraculous providence of God, influencing the distractions of some, the good affections of others, and the weariness of all towards that happy Restauration, after so many sufferings, to his regal crown and dignity.  Nevertheless he broke not off yet from his former habitudes; and though it were now too late to obviate this inconvenience, yet he persisted as far as in him was—­that is, by praying, caballing, and discoursing—­to obstruct the restoring of the episcopal government, revenues, and authority.  Insomuch that, finding himself discountenanced on those accounts by the then Warden of Wadham, he shifted colledges to Trinity, and, when there, went away without his degree, scrupling, forsooth, the Subscription then required.  From thence he came to London, where he spent a considerable time in creeping into all corners and companies, horoscoping up and down concerning the duration of the Government; not considering anything as best, but as most lasting and most profitable.  And after having many