of Marston Moor and
Naseby, and at the captures of Winchester, Basing House, and Oxford. He
entered Parliament in 1646, and represented the Army in their quarrels
with Parliament. He served with distinction in the second civil war, and
was zealous in bringing the King to trial and condemning him to death.
He conducted the pursuit of the Royalists after the battle of Worcester,
and, continuing to represent the extreme military party, was a party to
Pride's Purge. He was a prominent member of the Barebones Parliament,
but after its extinction ceased to exercise any political influence. He
refused to recognise the government in 1653, and was deprived of his
commission. He was afterwards imprisoned on various occasions on
suspicion of a connection with Anabaptist and other plots; but at the
Restoration refused to pledge himself not to disturb the government or
to save himself by flight. The Fifth-Monarchy men professed to look
forward to his resurrection to judge his judges and to restore the
Kingdom of Saints.

[37] Sir James Livingstone was descended from the Livingstones of
Callendar. He became a Gentleman of the Bedchamber to Charles, and was
made Viscount of Newburgh in 1647. The King was to have escaped from his
house at Bagshot on the occasion referred to above, on one of his
horses, reputed to be the fastest in England, but owing to the horse
falling lame, and the strictness of the watch kept on the King, the
scheme failed. After the King's execution he fled to the Hague, but
returned to Scotland in 1650. He accompanied Charles II. to England in
1651, and after the battle of Worcester fled to France. At the
Restoration he was made Captain of the Guard and an earl. In 1666 he,
with others, received a licence to dig coal in Windsor Forest. He died
in 1670.

[38] The Court included Albemarle, Manchester, and Denzil Hollis.

[39] Hugh Peters (1598-1660) graduated at Trinity College, Cambridge, in
1617-18. He was ordained in London, and at once made his mark as a
preacher, but being suspected of heresy, went to Holland about 1629.
There he inclined to Independency, and through the pressure put on the
Dutch by the English government, found it advisable to sail for Boston,
where he arrived in October 1635. There he took a prominent part in
local affairs, upholding clerical influence against Vane. In 1641 Peters
came to England to ask for assistance for the colony, and became
Chaplain to the Forces in Ireland. Returning