Excerpt from An Impartial Examination of the Fourth Volume of Mr. Daniel Neal's History of the Puritans: In Which His Too Great Attachment to the Usurpations of the Rump Parliament and Oliver Cromwell Is Discovered; His Misrepresentation of the Conduct of Some of Our English Prelates Detected; And Many of His Mistakes in History Exposed to Publick View N. Ibid. The Form of tbe Government for tbc future was declared to be a free Commonwealth tbe executive Power to be lodged in a Council of State of forty Perfons. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.