Two of them, Rothwell and Underhill, had published for Milton in former days.

The heretics chiefly denounced are Biddle, Dell, Farnworth, Norwood, Braine, John Webster, and Feake.

John Goodwin replied to the booksellers in _A fresh Discovery of the High Presbyterian Spirit, or the Quenching of "The Second Beacon Fired_," published in Jan.

1654-5, and so found himself in a new quarrel.

There was a reply called _An Apology for the Six Booksellers_.] A very fair amount of Liberty of the Press, though not to newspapers, nor to publications clearly immoral, seems to have been allowed by Cromwell.