I know, Master Furness, that, from what you have said, your views run not there with mine, and that you think a compromise is desirable.

But you do not know these fanatics as I do.

While they clamor for toleration, they are the narrowest of bigots, and will themselves tolerate nothing.

Already I have news that the convention between the Scotch conventicle and the English rebels is agreed to, and that an order has gone forth that the Presbyterian rites are to be observed in all the churches of England.
They say that thousands of divines will be turned from their churches and their places filled with ignorant fanatics, and this they call religious liberty.

Why, when Laud was in power his rule was as a silken thread compared to the hempen rope of these bigots, and should the king make terms with them, it will be only to rule henceforth at their bidding, and to be but an instrument in their hands for enforcing their will upon the people of these countries." Much as Harry desired peace and leaned toward compromise, he saw that there was much in what the earl said.