Note 428 — Chapter V · THE CAMPAIGN OF 1645.
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To Nicholas, 25 Aug. 1645. ‘Let my condition be never so low, I resolve by the grace of God never to yield up this church to the government of papists, Presbyterians, or independents, nor to injure my successors by lessening the crown of that ecclesiastical and military power which my predecessors left me, nor to forsake my friends.’