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Ecclesiastical History of England, Volume 3—The Church of the Restoration [part 1]

The details are generally of a minute description, and would very extensively serve the purpose of biographers and local historians; but they are not without considerable value for a purpose like mine, as my foot-notes will testify.

Chapters

53. CHAPTER XXV.

Dr. Gilbert Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury, died on the 9th of November, 1677. Illustrations have been afforded of his influence and activity at the time of the Restoration,...

54. ii. 229) are Wallis, Bates, Manton, Case, Ash, all of whom accepted;

[126] _Life and Times_, ii. 229. Amongst the Baxter MSS. in Dr. Williams' library, I have seen a note, apparently relating to the period now before us. Baxter said:--The late Ar...

35. CHAPTER VII.

The time had arrived for calling a new Parliament, since the Convention lacked certain constitutional attributes: and it seemed a further reason for summoning another House of C...

31. CHAPTER IV.

Charles, on his way to England, had reason for anxious care and steady forethought. Never had an English Prince come to the throne under such circumstances. A civil war was just...

32. CHAPTER V.

Soon after the King's return the Earl of Manchester employed his influence, as Lord Chamberlain, in the appointment of ten or twelve Presbyterian chaplains at Court; of these on...

28. CHAPTER I.

Richard Cromwell succeeded his father in the government of the realm, as if his family had from of old occupied the throne. What renders this fact the more remarkable is that th...

43. CHAPTER XV.

After all Clarendon's advice and all Sheldon's opposition, the King, within four months of the meeting of Council already described, returned to his favourite expedient. He publ...

45. CHAPTER XVII.

This year appears as a terrible one in the annals of London.[461] Two men in Drury Lane had sickened in the previous December. Upon inquiry, headache, fever, burning sensations,...

30. CHAPTER III.

The Presbyterians were the principal instruments in Charles' restoration; and in this they acted as the exponents and instruments of the nation's will. It was not Monk who influ...

46. CHAPTER XVIII.

The Fire of London broke out on the 1st of September, in a baker's shop in Pudding Lane. It rushed down Fish Street Hill, and soon enveloped the dwellings by London Bridge and o...

52. CHAPTER XXIV.

The state of the Royal family, as it respects religion, at the period which we have now reached, constituted the principal foundation in England, of Roman Catholic hope, and the...

37. CHAPTER IX.

Parliament, which had been adjourned in July, reassembled in November. Charles, on the 20th of that month, attired in crimson velvet, the crown on his head, the sceptre in his h...

50. CHAPTER XXII.

The Tenth Session of Charles' Second Parliament opened on the 4th of February, 1673. His Majesty's Speech glanced at the Indulgence, as having produced a good effect by producin...

51. CHAPTER XXIII.

The Cabal crumbled to pieces in 1673. It had never been guided by any common principles; it had never felt any community of interest; it had never been united by personal sympat...

49. CHAPTER XXI.

The fall of Clarendon had been succeeded by a Ministry well known in history under the name of the CABAL.[562] With the merely political conduct of the statesmen indicated by th...

40. CHAPTER XII.

More victims in the month of April were sacrificed upon the altar of revenge. Colonel John Okey, a distinguished officer in the Commonwealth Army, who had adopted Republican and...

27. CHAPTER XXV.

The knell of the Puritan Commonwealth was rung when Oliver Cromwell died. The causes of its dissolution may easily be discovered. Some of them had been in operation for a long t...

38. CHAPTER X.

As there had been only an adjournment, and not a prorogation in the summer of 1661, the Bill of Uniformity, carried by the Commons before that period, remained eligible for cons...

36. CHAPTER VIII.

The Solemn League and Covenant had been displaced a year, and the New Parliament now resolved to brand it with fresh indignities.[256] Accordingly it was, by the common hangman,...

41. CHAPTER XIII.

No Sunday in England ever exactly resembled that which fell on the 17th of August, 1662--one week before the feast of St. Bartholomew. There have been "mourning, lamentation, an...

44. CHAPTER XVI.

Within two years after the passing of the Act of Uniformity, the clergy exerted themselves to obtain further legislation in favour of the Church. From a petition which they pres...

42. CHAPTER XIV.

When the Act had taken effect, some of the Presbyterians looked for a mitigation of its severity. Those who lived in London, and were upon terms of friendship with the Earl of M...

47. CHAPTER XIX.

It was a pamphleteering age; and religion as well as politics fell under discussion in numerous small publications. Some one published in the beginning of August, 1667, under th...

39. CHAPTER XI.

The Bill received the Royal assent upon the 19th of May. Perhaps the reader will not be wearied with an account of the ceremony, and of the speeches delivered at the time.

29. CHAPTER II.

After Lambert's imitation of Oliver Cromwell, in dissolving the House of Commons, England might be said to be without any Government at all. In contrast with our conscious secur...

33. CHAPTER VI.

The treatment of the men who had been foremost in what the Royalists called the Great Rebellion, affords a further and a critical instance of the temper of Parliament. At first,...

34. civil. Their resistance and their trouble, together with the perplexity

of magistrates respecting them, are illustrated in the following extract of a letter written from Bristol, in the autumn of 1660:--"Be pleased to take notice that no Quaker, or...

48. CHAPTER XX.

The King was by no means disinclined to relieve Dissenters from the oppression which they experienced, provided he might extend relief on his own authority, and at his own pleas...

55. xxxv. Also, I find in the Record Office, a letter from "John Bishop of

Durham" to Williamson, sending "the complaint received from Newcastle about the seditious meetings of the Congregation of Saints." The letter is dated November 23rd, 1668. The c...

2. iii. Correspondence containing a great number of incidental

The details are generally of a minute description, and would very extensively serve the purpose of biographers and local historians; but they are not without considerable value...

9. CHAPTER VII.

26. CHAPTER XXIV.

6. CHAPTER IV.

19. CHAPTER XVII.

13. CHAPTER XI.

20. CHAPTER XVIII.

23. CHAPTER XXI.

17. CHAPTER XV.

5. CHAPTER III.

10. CHAPTER VIII.

16. CHAPTER XIV.

24. CHAPTER XXII.

11. CHAPTER IX.

3. CHAPTER I.

7. CHAPTER V.

14. CHAPTER XII.

25. CHAPTER XXIII.

8. CHAPTER VI.

15. CHAPTER XIII.

12. CHAPTER X.

4. CHAPTER II.

21. CHAPTER XIX.

18. CHAPTER XVI.

1. iii. Private letters alluding in various ways to Church

22. CHAPTER XX.