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by the people and prayers made without premeditation the [[underline]] Independents [[/underline]] went still farther they excluded all the clergy and maintained that every Man might pray in Public exhort his audience, & explain the scriptures-- after the Battle of Naseby the Kings affairs now went fast to receive in all quarters, he had escaped to Oxford where he shut himself up with the broken remains of his army--In the desperate extremity he embraced