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erly held, as appears from his Essay to the explaining of the Revelation, which he wrote after his return thence; which shews that he still retained a free and unprejudiced mind. During this period he was partly provided for by an allowance of a hundred crowns a-year, granted him by the Protector; and there is reason to believe that, in the little flock of attached adherents whom he had collected in London, there were some both able and willing to minister to his necessities. In the year 1658, Cromwell suffered a writ of habeas corpus to be granted by the Upper Bench Court, as it was then called, by virtue of which Mr. Biddle was at length set at liberty and restored to his friends; among whom he speedily resumed his long interrupted exercises and pursuits, undismayed by the dangers he had encountered and the evils he had suffered, and deeming not even his life dear unto him, if by any means he might promote the knowledge of the only true God, and of Jesus Christ whom he had sent.