Near one half of the goods and chattels, and at least one half of the lands, rents, and revenues of the kingdom, had been sequestered.

To great numbers of loyalists, all redress from these sequestrations was refused: to the rest, the remedy could be obtained only by paying large compositions, and subscribing the covenant, which they abhorred.
Besides pitying the ruin and desolation of so many ancient and honorable families, indifferent spectators could not but blame the hardship of punishing with such severity actions which the law, in its usual and most undisputed interpretation, strictly required of every subject.
The severities, too, exercised against the Episcopal clergy naturally affected the royalists, and even all men of candor, in a sensible manner.

By the most moderate computation,[v] it appears, that above one half of the established clergy had been turned out to beggary and want, for no other crime than their adhering to the civil and religious principles in which they had been educated, and for their attachment to those laws under whose countenance they had at first embraced that profession.
* Clement Walker's History of Independency, p.

3, 166.
** Clement Walker's History of Independency, p, 8.
*** Clement Walker's History of Independency, p.

8.
**** Clement Walker's History of Independency, p.