Wherever they could perceive a likelihood of disturbance, by act or by speech, there they were bound to curb or suppress.
At least in one instance they found it necessary to curb a too hasty and impetuous Royalist.

This was Dr.Matthew Griffith, a clergyman over sixty years of age, once a _protege_ of the poet Donne.
Sequestered in the early days of the Long Parliament from his rectory of St.Mary Magdalen, London, he had taken refuge with the King through the civil wars, and had been made D.D.at Oxford, and one of the King's chaplains.

Afterwards, returning to London, he had lived there through the Commonwealth and the Protectorate, one of those that continued the use of the liturgy and other Anglican church-forms by stealth to small gatherings of cavaliers, and that found themselves often in trouble on that account.

He had suffered, it is said, four imprisonments.

The near prospect of the return of Charles II.