What must have concerned him was to see Monk not only at one with the great mass of his countrymen on the subject of a Church-Establishment, but actually retrograde on the question of the desirable nature of such an Establishment, inasmuch as he seemed to signal his countrymen back out of Cromwell's broad Church of mixed Presbyterians, Independents, and Baptists, into a Church more strictly on the Presbyterian model.

Then another unpleasant novelty in Monk's case was his fondness for the phrases _Fanatics, Fanatic Notions_, the _Fanatic Party_.

The phrases were not new; but Monk had sent them out of Scotland before him, and had brought them himself out of Scotland, with a new significance.

Very probably they had been supplied to him out of the vocabulary of his Scottish clerical adviser Mr.James Sharp, or of the Scottish Resolutioner clergy generally.

At all events, it is from and after the date of Monk's march into England that one finds the name _Fanatics_ a common one for all those Commonwealth's men collectively who opposed a State-Church or the moderate Presbyterian or semi-Presbyterian form of it.