(died May 19, 1656, _aetat_ 72).
Robert Sanderson (_aetat_ 69).
Thomas Hobbes (_aetat_ 68).
Robert Herrick (_aetat_ 65).
John Hacket (_aetat_ 64).
Izaak Walton (_aetat_ 63).
James Shirley (_aetat_ 62).
James Howell (_aetat_ 62).
Gilbert Sheldon (_aetat_ 58).
William Prynne (_aetat_ 56).
Brian Walton (_aetat_ 56).
Peter Heylin (_aetat_ 56).
Jasper Mayne (_aetat_ 52).
Thomas Fuller (_aetat_ 52).
Edward Pocock (_aetat_ 52).
Sir William Davenant (_aetat_ 51).
Thomas Browne of Norwich (_aetat_ 51).
William Dugdale (_aetat_ 51).
Henry Hammond (_aetat_ 51).
Richard Fanshawe (_aetat_ 48).
Aston Cockayne (_aetat_ 48).
Samuel Butler (_aetat_ 44).
Jeremy Taylor (_aetat_ 43).
John Cleveland (_aetat_ 43).
John Pearson (_aetat_ 43).
John Birkenhead (_aetat_ 41).
John Denham (_aetat_ 41).
Richard Baxter (_aetat_ 41).
Roger L'Estrange (_aetat_ 40).
Abraham Cowley (_aetat_ 38).
John Evelyn (_aetat_ 36).
Isaac Barrow (_aetat_ 26).
Anthony Wood (_aetat_ 25).
Robert South (_aetat_ 23).

ACTIVE ENEMIES IN EXILE.

John Bramhall (_aetat_ 63).
George Morley (_aetat_ 58).
John Earle (_aetat_ 55).
Sir Kenelm Digby (_aetat_ 53).
Sir Edward Hyde (_aetat_ 48).
Thomas Killigrew (_aetat_ 45).
George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham (_aetat_ 29).

The relations of Cromwell to such persons varied, of course, with
their attitudes towards himself and his government.

The theologian among his adherents to whom he seems to have been
drawn by the strongest elective affinity was Dr. John Owen. "Sir, you
are a person I must be acquainted with," he had said to Owen in
Fairfax's garden; laying his hand on his shoulder, one day in April
1649, just after he had first heard Owen preach;[1] and so, from
being merely minister of Coggeshall in Essex, Owen had become
Cromwell's friend and chaplain in Ireland, and had still, through his
subsequent promotions, ending with the Deanery of Christ Church and
the Vice-Chancellorship of Oxford, been much about Cromwell and much
trusted by him. Perhaps the only difference now between them was that
Owen's theory of Toleration was less broad than Cromwell's. Next to
Owen among the divines of the Commonwealth, the Protector seems to
have retained his liking for Dr. Thomas Goodwin, and for such other
fervid or Evangelical Independents as Caryl, Sterry, Hugh Peters, and
Nicholas Lockyer, with a gradual tendency to John Howe, the