By stronger contagion, the popular affections were communicated from breast to breast in this place of general rendezvous and society.
The harangues of members, now first published and dispersed, kept alive the discontents against the king's administration.

The pulpits, delivered over to Puritanical preachers and lecturers, whom the commons arbitrarily settled in all the considerable churches, resounded with faction and fanaticism.

Vengeance was fully taken for the long silence and constraint in which, by the authority of Laud and the high commission, these preachers had been retained.

The press, freed from all fear or reserve, swarmed with productions, dangerous by their seditious zeal and calumny, more than by any art or eloquence of composition.
Noise and fury, cant and hypocrisy, formed the sole rhetoric which, during this tumult of various prejudices and passions, could be heard or attended to.
The sentence which had been executed against Prynne, Bastwic, and Burton, now suffered a revisal from parliament.

These libellers, far from being tamed by the rigorous punishments which they had undergone, showed still a disposition of repeating their offence; and the ministers were afraid lest new satires should issue from their prisons, and still further inflame the prevailing discontents.