They interposed in questions of private property.

Under color of malignancy, they exercised vengeance against their private enemies.
To the obnoxious, and sometimes to the innocent, they sold their protection.

And instead of one star chamber, which had been abolished, a great number were anew erected, fortified with better pretences, and armed with more unlimited authority.[*] * Clement Walker's History of Independency, p.5.

Hollis gives the same representation as Walker, of the plundering, oppressions, and tyranny of the parliament; only, instead of laying the fault on both parties, as Walker does, he ascribes it solely to the Independent faction.

The Presbyterians, indeed, being commonly denominated the moderate party, would probably be more inoffensive.