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...that after the execution of King Charles I in January 1649, the Presbytery of Belfast published a document condemning the King’s ‘murder’ and other actions of the English Parliament? The Presbytery also declared their support for the Solemn League and Covenant drawn up by their Scottish co-religionists. On behalf of the English Parliament, John Milton, the Latin Secretary of the Commonwealth, responded by vigorously denouncing the ‘blockish presbyters of Clandeboye’ for their pains, and dismissed Belfast as ‘a barbarous nook’ and a place ‘whose obscurity till now never came to our hearing’.