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tition of the army. Richard resigns the protectorship. Presbyterians

for restoring the king. Insurrection of Sir George Booth. Parliament

attempt to reduce the army, and are turned out. Committee of safety,

Gen. Monk marches into England, for a free parliament. The army

restores the parliament, but Monk continues his march, and enters the

city. The controversy between the city and parliament. Monk pulls

down their gates, but is reconciled to them. He restores the secluded

members of 1648. Proceeding of parliament. Presbytery restored.

Presbyterians in full possession of the nation. Character of general

Monk. State of episcopacy and of the king. Debates about filling the

vacant sees. Difficulties that attended it. Sundry expedients propos-

ed. Remarks. The king abjures the protestant religion at the Pyren-

ness. Proofs of his being a papist before, but denies it to foreign prot-

estants. The king's letter to Mr. Cawton. French ministers employ-

ed to write that the king is a protestant. Monk's letter to the inde-

pendents. He courts the presbyterians and the Scots kirk. Behavior

of the independents. Their rise and resolute progress through the

war, and of the officers of the army. Death of bishop 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 ex-

pectations from the court. G. Monk corresponds with the king. Con-

vention parliament meets. King's declaration from Breda. The par-

liament invites the king home without any terms, owing in part to lord

Clarendon. A deputation of lords and commons, with some ministers,

wait on the king. The minister's address and reception. The bishops

send to the king with instructions. Forwardness of the clergy. Rich-

ard Cromwell resigns his chancellorship, and absconds. His character.

The king lands, and rides through the city to Whitehall. They avow

the justice of the eivil war. They give up every thing the court de-

sires. Remarks. Presbyterian ministers made the king's chaplains.

The liturgy restored. The sequestered clergy restored, and heads of

colleges and fellows. Reformation of the university of Cambridge.

New creations in the universities. Vacancies in cathedrals filled up.

The old surviving bishops. Translation of bishops. New bishops

created. Of the independents, anabaptists, and papists. Of the times

before the restoration. Of the times after the restoration. Death of

Mr. Taylor.

The situation of the Quakers under the protector. The grounds
on which they were persecuted. The sufferings of some of them as
vagrants, and of others under the pretence of breaking the sabbath.
The quakers often violently assaulted by the mob on the sabbath-day.
Mr. Gough's reflections on this. The sufferings of George Fox at
Carlisle; his answer to the requisition of colonel Hacker. Cromwell's
message to him, converses with him, and sets him at liberty. Fox's
sufferings at St. Ives, in Cornwall. His journies to Wales. Some
assaulted by the mob, others punished as vagabonds. The persecution

of Richard Hubberthorn. The cruelties of jailers, especially in the
case of James Parnel. The sufferings of the quakers by fines and dis-
traints, and the numbers imprisoned. Their temper and consolations.
Their mutual kindness and charity. Their moral conduct and integ-
rity. They interfere not in political transactions. The increase of
their numbers, and spread of their doctrine. An observation of Ilugh
Peters. The moderation of the mayor of Oxford. The sufferings of
Elizabeth Heavens and Elizabeth Fletcher. The protection afforded
to the quakers by general Monk. A general reflection. An act of
the Scotch presbytery against the Baptists. Their publications. The
baptists dismissed from his army by Cromwell. A remonstrance on
this measure. Their numbers. Independents friends to liberty; par-
ticularly Dr. John Owen. John Hale's Traet on Schism. The per-
secution and writings of Mr. John Biddle. A vote against the Kaco-
vian catechism.

CHAPTER V.

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 presbyterians address for a comprehension. Abstract of
their first paper of proposals. Their reception. Abstract of the bish-
op's reply. Abstract of the presbyterians' defence of their proposals.
The beginning of the sufferings of the presbyterians, who apply to the
king. An assembly of divines to peruse the king's declaration. Ab-
straet of his declaration. Abstract of the second paper of exceptions
and requests of the presbyterians. Opinion of some of the churchmen
concerning the declaration, acceptable to most of the presbyterians.-
Some accept of preferments. Declaration rejected by the house of
commons. Remarks. Presbyterians in despair. Behavior of the
court and bishops. The beginning of the persecution of the non-con-
formists. Methods for that purpose. Act for restoring the sequest-
ered 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. Re-
marks. An aet for an anniversary observation of the 29th of May.-
Milton and Goodwin's books burnt. Popery revives in England and
in Ireland. Insurrection of the fifth-monarchy men. Consequences
of Venner's insurrection; disowned by the independents, by the bap-
tists, 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 second speech to parliament. Sham plots fathered on the
presbyterians. Farrington's plot. Corporation-aet. Remarks.

CHAPTER VI.

From the Conference at the Savoy, to the Act of Uniformity.
Conference at the Savoy. Opening it. Hardships of the presbyte-

rians. Proceedings of the commissioners. A disputation proposed.
The subject of the dispute. The presbyterians descend to intreaties.
Behavior of the commissioners; Dr. Morley, and bishop Gauden
Of the disputants. Of the auditors. Account of archbishop Tillotson.
Censures of the conference. A convocation. They are ordered to re-
view the liturgy. Alterations in it. Other additions. Liturgy
amended, sent up to the king and council, and house of peers. Epis-
copacy restored in Scotland, against the king's mind. Mr. Guthrie
executed. Character of the old Scotch presbyterians, and of the Scots
bishops and new clergy. Episcopacy restored in Ireland. Conduct
of the French protestants. The king's pretended zeal for the hierar-
chy. In favor of the papists, who declare their principles. The
dead bodies of the most considerable persons in the late times dug up.
Act against the quakers. State of religion. Extravagancies of the
court and nation. Queen-mother at Somerset-house. Sale of Dun-
kirk. Execution of more of the king's judges. Trials of colonel
Lambert and Sir H. Vane. Execution of Sir H. Vane. The act of
uniformity brought into parliament and passed. An abstract of it.
Remarks. Terms of conformity. Higher than before the civil wars.
Rapin's remarks. Reflections on bishop Kennet's remarks. Mr. Coll-
yer's remarks Anthors or promoters of this act. Bishop Sheldon;
other bishops and clergymen. Conduct of the presbyterians. Their
difficulties. Remarks. Some of them quit their livings. Ministers
ejected by the act of uniformity. Their hardships greater than the
papists at the reformation, or the loyalists in the time of the civil
wars. Difficulty of filling the vacancies. The condition of others.—
Dr. Bates' account of the act of uniformity. Sufferings of the ejected
ministers. Mr. Baxter's account. Other accounts. Death of Mr.
Ley, Mr. Jeanes, Dr. Chambers, Mr. Ash, and of Mr. Edward Bowles.
Acts for regulating the press. Licensers. Objections to Milton's
Paradise Lost.

CHAPTER VII.

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 elergy, high-church
and low-church. Remarks. and those of bishop Burnet. The Non-
conformists' petition for indulgence. The king's declaration concern-
ing it, supported by his speech to the parliament. Address of the
commons against it. Remarks. Rise of occasional conformity. The
Rev. Mr. Calamy sent to Newgate. Sham plot in the North. An
act for relief of non-subscribing ministers. Conventiele act, and sad
consequences of it to ministers and people. Their cautious conduct.
Sufferings of the quakers and others. War with the Dutch.

The charter for incorporating a society for the propagating the gos-
pel in New England. Death and character of bishop Juxon. An ac-
count of Mr. Henry Jessey.

- The plague. The ejected ministers venture to preach publicly,
which brings them under farther hardships. Lord Clarendon's speech
for it. The Oxford five-mile act. The oath. Some few take it, but
the generality refuse and go into banishment. Names of the non-con-
formist ministers registered in the bishops' courts. Death of Dr. Bur-
gess, and of Dr. Cheynell. An account of Mr. Samuel Fisher.

The fire of London produces a sort of liberty to the non-conformists.
Death of Mr. Calamy, of Mr. Arthur Jackson, and of Dr. Spurstow.
The fall of the earl of Clarendon ; his character.

From the Banishment of the Earl of Clarendon to the King's Declar-

ation 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-behavior of the bishops

and clergy. The death of Dr. Seaman, and of Mr. George Hughes.

Unhappy state of the nation. Project of a comprehension. Abstract

of the proposals. Alterations in the liturgy. An indulgence for such

as could not be comprehended. They are quashed by the bishops,

and the persecution revived. Mr. Baxter and others imprisoned, not

agreeable to the king's inclinations. Debates without doors. Various

publications. Licentiousness of the court and city, and university.

A letter from Mr. John Wallis to the Hon. Robert Boyle, in a note.—

Death of Mr. Newcomen and of Mr. Joseph Allein. The conventicle

act revived. The additional clauses. Remarks. Methods of perse-

cution. Archbishop Sheldon's letter to the bishops. Zeal of bishop

Gunning and others. Distress of the non-conformist ministers. Cour-

age of the quakers. The trial of Wm. Penn and Wm. Mead. Injus-

tice and cruelty of the court. The jury threatened. Penn and Mead

acquitted. The king's design of governing absolutely. Character of

the GABAL. Death of Dr. Tuckney, and of Mr. Wm. Bridge. Causes

of the growth of popery. Remedies proposed by the parliament.—

Conduct of the court. The duke of York abjures the protestant reli-

gion. Project of the Cabal to make the king absolute. Exchequer

shut up. War with the Dutch. Project of a general indulgence:

how it was resented. A new declaration of indulgence. Non-confor-

mists not forward to accept it by the dispensing power. A royal li-

cence to a non-conformist minister, in a note. Death of Dr. Staunton,

and of Mr. Vavasor Powel.

SUPPLEMENT TO CHAPTERS V. VI. VII. AND VIII.

SEOT. I.

with growing insolent. Their petitions to Charles II. complaining

of their sufferings. The ill-treatment received by Mr. Helme, Mr.

Warren, and Mr. Fletcher. The baptists excepted in an act for con-

firming all ministers in their benefices. They are persecuted at

Reading. Newport, London, and Dover. The sufferings of Dr. Grif

fith and Mr. Grantham. A circumstance which aggravated the pro-

ceedings against the baptists. Repeated outrages committed on them

at the meeting-house in Whitechapel. Other religious assemblies dis-

turbed with violence. Insult and abuse offered to those who were in

the prisons The severe proceedings of the justices in Buckingham-

shire, particularly on the act of the 35th of Eliz. The case of ten

men and two women sentenced to death. The baptists are refused the

benefit of the common burying-places, and some are taken out of their

graves. Their sufferings at Lewes and other places, particularly by

fines and distresses. A libel published to fix a stigma on this party.

The story of Mr. Josiah Baxter. The prosecution of Mr. John James;

the king's reply to the petition for his life. Mr. Keach's sufferings.—

His "New and easy Primer." Particular instances of calamities

befalling their persecutors. Dr. Jortin quoted. The consolations and

temper of the persecuted: e. g. of some in Reading gaul; of some whose

goods were seized; of Mr. John James, and of Mr. Keach. The publi-

cations of the baptists in their own defence, and their petitions to the

higher powers. A declaration of some on the side of the principles of

passive obedience. An address to the king and parliament in a defence

of the rights of conscience. The authors of it, and their liberal design.

An account of some of them, viz. Mr. Wright, Mr. George Hammon,

Mr. William Jeffrey, and Mr. Francis Stanley. The publication of a

piece entitled "A complaint of the oppressed against the oppressors,

and of a plea for toleration." Mr Atkins' letter to the magistrates of

Dover. A pamphlet entitled "Behold! a Cry." The history of Rob-

ert Wright; the challenge given him by the baptists. A narrative of

the proceedings of some justices and some others, in execution of the

act against conventicles.

THE Quakers rejoice in the restoration of Charles II. and, by Mr.
Hubberthorn, lay before him a state of their sufferings. The king prom-
ises them protection. The persecution of them soon renewed. Great
numbers cast into prison. Old laws revived, and on them they are pro-
ceeded against. The case of Thomas Goodyear and Benjamin Staples.
The justices restrained in a degree by higher authority. The severe
hardships ruel treatment to which this people were exposed.

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A Casc hich the coroner's jury declined giving a verdict. The
king's daration. The author of a narrative of their sufferings prose-
cuted. Many die in Newgate. A guard placed at the entrance of the
Bull-and-Mouth meeting-house. A severe persecution at Colchester.
A generous speech of a quaker. The operation of the conventiele act

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