Note 57 — Chapter III
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See Clarendon's statements in his Hist. of Rebellion, 795, and those of Baxter, in his Life and Times, i. 70. The question with regard to a Commission of Triers is thus unfairly represented by the latter: "It was put to the vote whether all the parish ministers of England should at once be put down or no. And it was but accidentally carried in the negative by two voices." Clarendon goes so far as to say: "They resolved the function itself to be antichristian, and the persons to be burdensome to the people."