1645 THOMAS SWADLIN. Presbyterians Asked to Stop Civil War in Return for Liberty of Conscience. ZZAmericanaandHistory slavery and Native Americans

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1645 THOMAS SWADLIN. Presbyterians Asked to Stop Civil War in Return for Liberty of Conscience. ZZAmericanaandHistory slavery and Native AmericansVery rare and rather important tractate by Royalist anti Cromwellian divine, Thomas Swadlin. He had been removed from his living and imprisoned by Cromwell and the Puritan Parliament. From prison he appears to have issued the present letter, anonymously, to John Glynne, a Welsh Lawyer who became Lord Chief Justice under Oliver Cromwell. Glynne himself was a Presbyterian. It drips with sarcasm; Glynne had in fact issued the orders that led to Swadlin