and quondam Fellow-sufferer, I gave it entertainment, and for the love I beare to him, I have ever since danled it upon the knee of my election: Now as soone as I had satisfied his expectation, and sent him my Booke so long looked for, he very liberally expressed his thankes for it, and his opinion concerning both it and my selfe, and that with many opprobrious words; amidst others he asserted, I was crased in my braine, and that I had need of some hellebore, and spake of me as an Apostate and a Persecutor, who before he new my differing opinion from him, both prayed for me, and immoderately praysed me, such is the uncertainty of all that is un∣der the Sunne, there being no stability in any creature; and with∣all, hee triumphed that he would give me a speedy answer, making nothing of what I had written (as it is usuall with all the Inde∣pendents to vilipend and slight whatsoever the Presbyterians ei∣ther speake or write) and meeting with an other Independent not many dayes after, he told me that there were twenty pens at worke against me, and that I should have my hands full. And how∣soever it was some moneths before I heard from any of them in print, yet all that interim they whetted their tongues against me like so many Razors, Swords and Arrows to wound me in my reputation; yea, there was scarce a weapon in all the arsenall of calumny that they used not against me.Now after some moneths one Hanserdo Knollys comming to me, told me he had writ a moderate Answer unto my Booke, com∣playning that the Presses were all shut against them (though the whole Kingdome know, and their daily scriblings in print can witnesse the contrary; whereupon, to take away (if it were possible) all occasion of their calumnious tongues, I writ unto Reverend and Learned Master Cranford, intreating him that hee would for the stopping of all their mouths license his Booke, which he willingly, to pleasure me condescended unto, giving his reason withall in writing under his owne hand why he made such a trans∣gression, the which Master Knollys concealed, wherein he dealt not candidly, for it gave great occasion to the Sectaries to traduce Master Cranford not a little. And after this was printed, came forth an other Pamphlet by one I. S. called Flagellum Flagolli, or Doctor Bastwicks quarters beaten up, which was the cause of the Title and Inscription of this Booke; and I being not many weeks after at Westminster, some asking me there why I had not yet re∣plyed0