Note 381 — Chapter XIII
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Mr. Nye and Mr. Goodwin entered into conference with Ogle only that they might entrap him. In the Journal of the House of Commons, January 26th, 1643-4, it is recorded "that Mr. Goodwin, Mr. Nye, with the privity of my Lord General and some members of the House, had conference with Ogle—Resolved, 'that it doth appear upon the whole matter, that the King and his council at Oxford do endeavour and embrace all ways to raise and ferment divisions betwixt us and our brethren of Scotland, and amongst ourselves under the fair pretences of easing tender consciences; that during these fair pretences their immediate design was the ruin of the kingdom by the destroying and burning the magazines thereof; that thanks be returned to Mr. Nye and Mr. Goodwin from both Houses.'" We learn from Baillie, ii. 137, that John Goodwin is the person here intended.