Pulter here shows her connections to other Royalist polemic, which routinely linked Protestant “Independents” to other religious and ethnic groups, disparaging them all by association. While “Independents” referred to a distinct group with a very particular religious and political agenda, Pulter uses the term to lump together all who presume to set their own course. Similarly, Philocrates, in The Loyal Sacrifice: Presented in the Lives and Deaths of those two eminent-heroic patterns, for valor, discipline, and fidelity, the generally beloved and bemoaned, Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle, Knights (n.p., 1648) refers to the “sundry Jewish Anarchial Synagogue rooks” supporting the Army and Parliament (11). It also refers to the Turks to emphasize the barbarity of the killing of Lucas and Lisle: “But never did any savage nation, were it Turkish or any other heathen, execute the like tyranny and cruelty upon such frivolous pretenses (as is well observed) in cold blood” (68). A dedicatory epistle to Sir John Lucas, Charles’s brother, begins with the claim that many Englishmen “are degenerated into the very faith, or rather perfidiousness of the Jew” (Demophilus Philanactos, Two Epitaphs, Occasioned by the Death of Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle, basely assassinated at Colchester [1648], sig. DA2r). In Pulter’s poem here, the “horrid Hydra,” “Cursed Rabble,” “black army,” and “sacrilegious rout” all link the Parliamentary cause, the New Model Army, and their supporters as a disorderly mob.