Note 587 — APPENDIX.
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Baxter, and the Presbyterian ministers at the Savoy, speak of "many hundreds," "several hundreds," and "some hundreds." Hook, in a letter in the State Paper Office (March 2nd, 1663) says: Of the ejected Puritans, they were "about 1,500 or 1,600 in the nation, besides as near as many before upon the point of title." All this is indeterminate, and in Hook's statement there must be exaggeration.