None knew who they were, or of what rank.

It was probable that they had been long dead.

Yet it was thought necessary to declare that, if even now, after the lapse of forty-one years, they should be discovered, they would still be liable to the punishment of their great crime.

Perhaps it would hardly have been thought necessary to mention these men, if the animosities of the preceding generation had not been rekindled by the recent appearance of Ludlow in England.

About thirty of the agents of the tyranny of James were left to the law.