The details of the business were managed by that body of "Trustees for maintenance of ministers" which had been appointed by Ordinance in Sept.

1654 (Vol.IV.

p.
564); but the final Orders for Augmentations came from the Protector and Council, and there was no part of his work in which the Protector seemed to have more pleasure.[1] [Footnote 1: Baxter, 96-97 and 180-188; Wood's Ath.III.

1083; Council Order Books of dates; Neal, IV.Chap.

3; Marchamont Needham's Book against John Goodwin, entitled _The Great Accuser Cast Down_, published in July 1657.