"_The Great Accuser cast down, or a Public Trial of Mr.John Goodwin of Coleman Street, London, at the Bar of Religion and Right Reason_," was a pamphlet by Needham, published July 31.

It was dedicated "To His Most Serene Highness, Oliver, Lord Protector," &c., in such terms as these:--"Sir, It is a custom in all countries, when any man hath taken a strange creature, immediately to present it to the Prince: whereupon I, having taken one of the strangest that (I think) any part of your Highness's dominions hath these many years produced, do, with all submissiveness, make bold to present him, bound hand and foot with his own cords (as I ought to bring him), to your Highness.
He need not be sent to the Tower for his mischievousness: there is no danger in him now, nor like to be henceforth, as I have handled him." In a prefixed Epistle to the Reader there is a good deal of scurrility against Goodwin.

He is described as "worse than a common nuisance." He is taxed also with inconsistency, inasmuch as he had been one of those who, in Feb.

1651-2, had signed the famous _Proposals of Certain Ministers to the Committee for the Propagation of the Gospel_, in which the principle of an Established Church had been assumed and asserted (ante, IV.

392).