In this year I published _Annas Tenebrosus_, which book I did not so
entitle, because of the great obscurity of the solar eclipse, by so many
prattled of to no purpose, but because of those underhand and
clandestine counsels held in England by the soldiery, of which I would
never, but in generals, give any knowledge unto any Parliament man. I
had wrote publickly in 1650, that the Parliament should not continue,
but a new government should arise, &c.
In my next year's _Anglicus_, upon rational grounds in astrology, I was
so bold as to aver therein, that the Parliament stood upon a tottering
foundation, and that the commonalty and soldiery would join together
against them.
My _Anglicus_ was for a whole week every day in the Parliament House,
peeped into by the Presbyterians, one disliking this sentence, another
finds another fault, others misliked the whole; so in the end a motion
was made, that _Anglicus_ should be inspected by the Committee for
plundered ministers; which being done, they were to return them to the
House, viz. report its errors.
A messenger attached me by a warrant from that Committee; I had private
notice ere the messenger came, and hasted unto Mr.
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