CHAPTER XXXVII

CHARLES II. AND CLARENDON. 1660-1667

1. Return of Charles II. 1660 578

2. King and Parliament. 1660 579

3. Formation of the Government. 1660 580

4. The Political Ideas of the Convention Parliament. 1660 580

5. Execution of the Political Articles of the Declaration of Breda. 1660 581

6. Ecclesiastical Debates. 1660 583

7. Venner's Plot and its Results. 1661 584

8. The Cavalier Parliament and the Corporation Act. 1661 585

9. The Savoy Conference, and the Act of Uniformity. 1661-1662 585

10. The Dissenters. 1662 585

11. The Parliamentary Presbyterians. 1662 586

12. Profligacy of the Court. 1662 586

13. Marriage of Charles II. and Sale of Dunkirk. 1662 587

14. The Question of Toleration Raised. 1662-1663 587

15. The Conventicle Act. 1664 588

16. The Repeal of the Triennial Act. 1664 588

17. Growing Hostility between England and the Dutch. 1660-1664 589

18. Outbreak of the First Dutch War of the Restoration. 1664-1665 589

19. The Plague. 1665 590

20. The Five Mile Act. 1665 590

21. Continued Struggle with the Dutch. 1665-1666 590

22. The Fire of London. 1666 592

23. Designs of Louis XIV. 1665-1667 592

24. The Dutch in the Medway, and the Peace of Breda. 1667 593

25. Clarendon and the House of Commons. 1667 593

26. The Fall of Clarendon. 1667 594

27. Scotland and Ireland. 1660 595