In the late Parliament there had been much of this Presbyterian spirit, and it had been proved abundantly that the Protector's idea of Toleration would have been voted down by the national representatives.

Then what a harassing definition of proper Christian Toleration had come even from Cromwell's favourite Independents, Messrs.

Owen and the rest, with their twenty fundamentals! Add the difficulties arising from the nature of some of the current heresies themselves, as tending directly to the defamation of his government, the subversion of laws and institutions, and the disturbance of the peace.[1] [Footnote 1: Various Thomason Pamphlets of 1654-1656.

The _Second Beacon Fired_ was published in Oct.

1654 by six London booksellers--Luke Fawne, John Rothwell, Samuel Gellibrand, Thomas Underhill, Joshua Kirton, and Nathaniel Webb.