228-229; Thomason Catalogue of Pamphlets; Commons Journals, April 11, 1657; Thurloe, I.
289.] Cromwell had used the Venner outbreak to point a moral in one or two of his speeches on the Kingship Question.

The standard taken at Mile-End-Green bore a Red Lion couchant, with the motto _Who shall rouse him up ?;_ and among the tracts or manifestos taken was one called _A Standard set up, whereunto the true Seed and Saints of the Most High may be gathered together for the lamb, against the Beast and the False Prophet_.

It was a fierce diatribe against Cromwell, with a scheme for the government of the Commonwealth on Fifth-Monarchy principles after his overthrow.

The supreme authority was to be the Lord Jesus Christ; but there was to be an annually elected Sanhedrim or Supreme Council to represent Him, and to administer Biblical Law, and no other, with inferior elected judges for towns and counties.

The Bible being the sole Law, a formal Legislature would be unnecessary; and all other magistracy besides the Sanhedrim and the Judgeships was to be abolished, and also, of course, all State ministry of Religion.