And here was an impudent Doctor of Divinity spoiling all by openly assuming and announcing the very thing to be concealed.

Monk was excessively irritated; the Council of State sympathized with him; and so, "to please and blind the fanatical party" for the moment, Dr.Griffith was sent to Newgate.[1] [Footnote 1: Wood's Ath.III.

711-713 .-- Hyde, writing from Breda, April 16, 1660, says to a Royalist correspondent: "This very last post hath brought over three or four complaints to the king of the very unskillful passion and distemper of some of our divines in their late sermons; with which they say that both the General and the Council of State are highly offended, as truly they have reason to be ...

One Dr.Griffith is mentioned." _Ibid._, note by Bliss.] It was more natural, however, for the General and the Council to take similar precautions against too violent expressions of anti-Royalism, too vehement efforts to stir up the Republican embers.
Of their vigilance in this respect we have just seen an instance in their instant suppression of the Republican appeal to Monk and his Officers entitled _Plain English_, and their procedure by proclamation against the anonymous publisher of that tract.

If I am not mistaken, he was Livewell Chapman, of the Crown in Pope's Head Alley, the publisher of Milton's _Considerations touching the likeliest means to remove Hirelings out of the Church_, and also of his more recent _Ready and Easy Way to establish a Free Commonwealth_.