Septemvirs

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Trivia: The Independents or "Dissenting Brethren" at the Westminster Assembly were sometimes known as the "Septemvirs."

Robert S. Paul, The Assembly of the Lord: Politics and Religion in the Westminster Assembly and the 'Grand Debate', p. 124:

The Independents or 'Dissenting Brethren' of the Assembly were led by the five Apologists who produced An Apologeticall Narration early in 1644 -- Thomas Goodwin, Philip Nye, William Bridge, Sidrach Simpson and Jeremiah Burroughs.[64] Also in publishing their Reasons against Presbyterian uniformity they were joined by William Greenhill and William Carter, and were then sometimes referred to as the 'septemvirs'.

John Cotton, Preface to John Norton, The Answer to the Whole Set of Questions of the Celebrated Mr. William Apollonius, Pastor of the Church of Middleburg: Looking toward the Resolution of Certain Controversies Concerning Church Government Now Being Agitated in England:

The distinguished Mr. Apollonius had been pleased to gather together in a kind of bundle a large number of questions about church discipline not only from odd books by scattered authors but also, among other orthodox writings, from the essay of the very saintly Baynes, from the serene and most pious Apology of the Septemvirs, and from the lesser literature of our New Englanders; he had then gone on to ask our brethren whether they would accept his answers to those questions as their own.