fpeech. The recognition. The protector diffolves the parliament.
Plot of the republicans and of the royalifts: the protector's vigilance
and severity against them by decimation. Affairs of religion. Attempts
to settle fundamentals. Committee to draw up the fundamentals of
religion. The articles. Remarks. Protector for universal liberty.
Ordinance appointing commiffioners for approbation of publick
preachers. Their inftructions. Remarks. Additional ordinance.
Complaints against the Tryers. Objections to their management.
Their proceedings. Remarks. Mr. Baxter's opinion of them. New
ordinance for ejecting fcandalous minifters. Their inftructions.
Objections against it. Dr. Pordage ejected, and Mr. Bushnel. Com-
miflioners for Wales: fad ftate of that principality. Ordinance for
propagating the gofpel in Wales. Numbers ejected. Their crimes.
Their method of supplying the vacancies. Petitions against the com-
miffioners. Further complaints against them. Ordinance for uniting
fmall livings, and dividing the greater. Protector for encouraging
learning. Vifitors for the univerfities. Their influence. The pro-
tector's zeal for the proteftant religion. State of the royal family.
Death of Mr. Selden, of the Rev. Mr. Gataker, Mr. Strong,
Mr. Pern, Dr. Samuel Bolton, Mr. Whitaker, and Mr. Richard
Vines. The protector appoints major-generals. Enters into an
alliance with France, and fends admiral Blake to the Mediterranean.
Jamaica taken from the Spaniards. Proceedings of the provincial
affembly. Account of Mr. Biddle the Socinian. A fevere ordinance
against the old fequeftered clergy. Protector is willing to dispense
with the ordinance. Reasons of his severity against the papifts. He
is for encouraging the Jews. Arguments for and against it. Re-
He affifts the proteftants in the valleys. Original of the
fociety for the fons of the clergy. Death of archbishop Usher; of
Mr. Marshall. The protector calls for a new parliament. They
are obliged to recognize the government. Their acts. Syndercombe's
plot. Spanish Plate fleet taken. Hiftory of the quakers continued;
their extravagancies. Hiftory of James Naylor, and of his fufferings.
Ordinance for the better obfervation of the fabbath; against papists;
their oath. The protector affifts the proteftants of Nifmes. The
death of Dr. Hall, bishop of Norwich, and of Mr. Capel. Debates
about the title of king, and the protector's reafons for declining it.
Remarks. Parliament's petition and advice. Article relating to reli-
gion. The protector's new title. Remarks. The protector's second
inftalment. His grandeur and wife administration. The protector's
treaty with France. Admiral Blake deftroys the Spanish galleons.
His death and character. The protector conftitutes an upper house
of parliament; bad confequences of it. The protector's speech at
the diffolution of the parliament. He purges the army, and projects
an union of the whole reformed intereft. Biblia Polyglotta. The
protector resigns his chancellorship, and appoints his fon Henry,
lieutenant
lieutenant of Ireland. Original of the Royal Society. Death of Mr.
Langley, Mr. Sedgwick, Mr. Corbet, and of Mr. Cranford. Dunkirk
delivered to the English. Plot of the fifth-monarchy men and of the
cavaliers. Dr. Hewet's trial. Confeffion of faith by the Independents;
their affembly; abstract of their confeffion; of their difcipline; their
fentiments of liberty. Remarks. Danger of the hierarchy. Addrefs
of the Anabaptifts. The protector's fickness and death. His cha-
racter, as a foldier, as a statesman; his publick character; his religious
and moral character; his enthufiafm. Objections against him con-
fidered. His diffimulation, ambition, and cruelty. Sum of his
character. Death of Dr. John Harris, of Mr. Sydrach Sympfon, of
Dr. Robert Harris, and of Mr. William Carter.
Richard, protector, fummonfes a parliament. Wallingford-house
party
Richard depofed by the army. Rump parliament restored.
H. Cromwell's letter from Ireland. Letter to Lieut. Gen. Fleetwood.
Petition of the army. Richard refigns the protectorfhip. Presbyterians
for restoring the king. Infurrection of Sir George Booth. Parliament
attempt to reduce the army, and are turned out. Committee of
fafety. Gen. Monk marches into England, for a free parliament. The
army reftores the parliament, but Monk continues his march, and
enters the city. The controverfy between the city and parliament.
Monk pulls down their gates, but is reconciled to them. He restores
the fecluded members of 1648. Proceedings of parliament. Presby-
tery restored. Prefbyterians in full poffeffion of the nation. Cha-
racter of general Monk. State of episcopacy and of the king. Debates
about filling the vacant fees. Difficulties that attended it. Sundry
expedients propofed. Remarks. The king abjures the proteftant
religion at the Pyrennees Proofs of his being a papift before, but
denies it to foreign proteftants. The king's letter to Mr. Cawton.
French minifters employed to write that the king is a protestant.
Monk's letter to the independents. He courts the presbyterians and
the Scots kirk. Behaviour of the independents. Their rife and
refolute progress through the war, and of the officers of the army.
Death of bifhop Brownrigge, of Mr. Herle, and of Mr. Thomas
Cawton. The restoration of king Charles II. Presbyterians in full
power. Terms on which the Scots and presbyterians would restore
the king. Remarks. Of their vain expectations from the court.
G. Maak correfponds with the king. Convention parliament meets.
King's declaration from Breda. The parliament invites the king
home without any terms, owing in part to lord Clarendon. A depu-
tation of lords and commons, with fome minifters, wait on the
king. The minifter's address and reception. The bishops send to
the king with inftructions. Forwardness of the clergy. Richard
Cromwell refigns his chancellorship, and abfconds. His character.
The king lands, and rides through the city to Whitehall. They
avow the justice of the civil war. They give up every thing the
court defires. Remarks: Prefbyterian minifters made the king's
chaplains. The liturgy reftored. The fequeftered clergy restored,
and heads of colleges and fellows. Reformation of the university of
Cambridge. New creations in the univerfities. Vacancies in cathe-
drals filled up. The old furviving bifhops. Tranflation of bishops.
New bishops created. Of the independants, anabaptists, and papists.
Of the times before the restoration. Of the times after the restora-
tion. Death of Mr. Taylor.
SUPPLEMENT TO CHAP. III. AND IV.
The fituation of the Quakers under the protector. The grounds
on which they were perfecuted. The fufferings of fome of them as
vagrants, and of others under the pretence of breaking the fabbath.
The quakers oftenviolently affaulted by the mob on the fabbath-day.
Mr. Gough's reflections on this. The fufferings of George Fox at
Carlisle; his anfwer to the requifition of colonel Hacker. Cromwell's
meffage to him, converfes with him, and fets him at liberty.
fufferings at St. Ives, in Cornwall. His journies to Wales. Some
affaulted by the mob, others punished as vagabonds. The perfecu-
tion of Richard Hubberthorn. The cruelties of jailers, especially in
the cafe of James Parnel. The fufferings of the quakers by fines and
diftraints, and the numbers imprisoned. Their temper and confo-
lations. Their mutual kindness and charity. Their moral conduct
and integrity. They interfere not in political tranfactions. The in-
crease of their numbers, and spread of their doctrine. An obfervation
of Hugh Peters. The moderation of the mayor of Oxford. The
fufferings of Elizabeth Heavens and Elizabeth Fletcher. The pro-
tection afforded to the quakers by general Monk. A general reflection.
An act of the Scotch prefbytery againft the Baptifts. Their publica-
tions. The baptifts dismissed from his army by Cromwell. A re-
monftrance on this measure. Their numbers. Independents friends
to liberty; particularly Dr. John Owen. John Hale's Tract on
Schifm. The perfecution and writings of Mr. John Biddle. A vote
against the Racovian catechifun.
From the Restoration of King Charles II. to the Conference
at the Savoy.
Views of the court and of the bishops: and of the king and duke
of York. The prefbyterians addrefs for a comprehenfion. Abstract
of their firft paper of propofals. Their reception. Abstract of the
bishops' reply. Abstract of the prefbyterians' defence of their propo-
fals. The beginning of the fufferings of the presbyterians, who
apply to the king. An affembly of divines to peruse the king's decla-
ration. Abstract of his declaration. Abstract of the second paper
of exceptions and requests of the prefbyterians. Opinion of some of
the churchmen concerning the declaration, acceptable to moft of the
prefbyterians. Some accept of preferments. Declaration rejected
by the houfe of commons. Remarks. Prefbyterians in despair.
Behaviour of the court and bishops. The beginning of the perfecu-
tion of the non-conformifts. Methods for that purpose. Act for
reftoring the fequeftered clergy. For confirming marriages in the late
times. Attainder of the king's judges. Cromwell and others that
were dead, taken out of their graves. Trials of the king's judges.
Their execution. Remarks. An act for an anniversary obfervation
of the 29th of May. Milton and Goodwin's books burnt. Popery
revives in England and in Ireland. Infurrection of the fifth-monarchy
men. Confequences of Venner's infurrection; difowned by the inde-
pendents, by the baptifts, and by the quakers. The presbyterians
in trouble. Bishop Stilling fleet's" Irenicum."
An account of Dr. Henry Hammond.
The king's marriage. The king's and lord Clarendon's speech.
The king's fecond fpeech to parliament. Sham plots fathered on
the prefbyterians. Yarrington's plot. Corporation-act. Remarks.
From the Act of Uniformity, to the Banishment of the
Earl of Clarendon.
Views of the several parties; of the king and court; of the parlia-
ment; of the clergy and bishops; of the inferior clergy, high-church
and low-church. Remarks, and those of bifhop Burnet. The Non-
conformists' petition for indulgence. The king's declaration concern-
ing it, fupported by his fpeech to the parliament. Address of the
commons against it. Remarks. Rife of occafional conformity. The
Rev. Mr. Calamy fent to Newgate. Sham plot in the North. An
act for relief of non-fubfcribing minifters. Conventicle act, and fad
confequences of it to minifters and people. Their cautious con-
duct. Sufferings of the quakers and others. War with the Dutch.
The charter for incorporating a fociety for the propagating the
gofpel in New England. Death and character of bifhop Juxon. An
account of Mr. Henry Jelley.
The plague. The ejected minifters venture to preach publickly,
which brings them under farther hardships. Lord Clarendon's fpeech
for it. The Oxford five-mile act. The oath. Some few take it,
but the generality refufe and go into banishment. Names of the non-
conformist minifters registered in the bishops' courts. Death of Dr.
Burges, and of Dr. Cheynell.An account of Mr. Samuel Fisher.
The fire of London produces a fort of liberty to the non-conformists.
Death of Mr. Calamy, of Mr. Arthur Jackson, and of Dr. Spurflow.
The fall of the earl of Clarendon; his character.
From the Banifhment of the Earl of Clarendon to the King's
Declaration of Indulgence in the year 1672.
The king moves for a general toleration. The parliament petition
to put the penal laws in execution. The ill behaviour of the bishops
and clergy. The death of Dr. Seaman, and of Mr. George Hughes.
Unhappy state of the nation. Project of a comprehenfion. Abstract
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