Note 44 — Chapter III
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Quoted in Forster's English Statesmen, v. 139.
Thurloe gives one of the replies, dated 13th May, 1653. The Dutch deputies say, in a letter of the 12th of August, 1653, that "the Independent party" are spread through all England under the name of gathered churches. The word "Independent" was often used in a very wide and general sense.—Thurloe's State Papers, i. 395.