es' power in matters of faith and worship,
we have declared our judgments in our late (Free Savoy) confession, and
though we greatly prize our Christian liberties, yet we profess our utter
dislike and abhorrence of a universal toleration, as being contrary to
the mind of God in His Word.

'3. We judge that the taking away of tithes for the maintenance of
ministers until as full a maintenance be equally secured and as legally
settled, tends very much to the destruction of the ministry, and the
preaching of the Gospel in these nations.

'4. It is our desire that countenance be not given unto, nor trust
reposed in, the hand of Quakers, they being persons of such principles as
are destructive to the Gospel, and inconsistent with the peace of modern
societies.'

In five years the Yarmouth people had a Roland for their Oliver; the King
had got his own again, and he and the Parliament of the day looked upon
the Independents or Presbyterians as mischievous as the Quakers; and as
to tithes, they were quite as much resolved, the only difference being
that King and Parliament insisted on their being paid to Episcopalians
alone. In 1770 Lady Huntingdon writes: 'Success has crowned our labours
in that wicked place, Yarmouth.'

Mrs. Bendish, in whom the Protector was said to have lived again, was
quite a character in Yarmouth society. Bridget Ireton, the granddaughter
of the Protector, married in 1669 Mr. Thomas Bendish, a descendant of Sir
Thomas Bendish, baronet, Ambassador from Charles I. to the Sultan. She
died in 1728, removing, however, in the latter years of her life to
Yarmouth. Her name stands among the members of the church in London of
which Caryl had been pastor, and over which Dr. Watts presided. To her
the latter addressed at any rate one copy of verses to be found in his
collected works. She recollected her grandfather, and standing, when six
years old, between his knees at a State Council, she heard secrets which
neither bribes nor whippings could extract from her. Her grandfather she
held to be a saint in heaven, and only second to the Twelve Apostles.
Asked one day whether she had ever been at Court, her reply was, 'I have
never been at Court since I was waited upon on the knee.' Yet she
managed to dispense with a good deal of waiting, and never would suffer a
servant to attend her. God, she said, was a sufficient guard, and she
would have no other. She is described as loquacious and eloquent and
ent