How Mr. Peters advanced the Cause of Oliver. (Book 44)
Master Peters for the maintenance of the Army un∣der his Master Oliver, used often times to exhort the people to be liberal in their Contributions, and having used his utmost endeavours in London, he endeavoured to stir up the wellaffected in several Counties, alwayes intermixing somewhat of mony in his Discourse, but one time above the rest having provided himself with a pair of breeches without pockets, onely holes cut in the places where the pockets should be, and his Audito∣ry being most Women, he affrighted them exceedingly with the terrible Characters he gave the Cavaliers, and at length out comes a whole bunch of Rings, which he had hung on his codpeice button; And my beloved, quoth Hugh, these Rings the Women of such a Town gave me, and shaking them a while in one hand, pre∣tended to put them up, but standing upright in the Pulpit, he took them through his breeches in the other, and see here saith he, beloved Sisters, these the pious minded Women of another Town gave me, to subdue the wicked Cavaliers; by this peice of Sophistry he would preach his ignorant hearers out of large sums of money, which it may be supposed he treasured in his own coffers.