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 The situation of the Quakers under the protector. The grounds of Richard Hubberthorn. The cruelties of jailers, especially in the CHAPTER V. From the Restoration of King Charles II. to the Conference at the Views of the court and of the bishops: and of the king and duke of An account of Dr. Henry Hammond. The king's marriage. The king's and lord Clarendon's speech- CHAPTER VI. From the Conference at the Savoy, to the Act of Uniformity. rians. Proceedings of the commissioners. A disputation proposed. 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- The charter for incorporating a society for the propagating the gos- - The plague. The ejected ministers venture to preach publicly, The fire of London produces a sort of liberty to the non-conformists. 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, SUPPLEMENT TO CHAPTERS V. VI. VII. AND VIII. SEOT. I. THE share the Baptists had in the vicissitudes of government.- Cromwell endeavors to suppress them. Mr. Baxter charges them 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 THE Quakers rejoice in the restoration of Charles II. and, by Mr. A Casc hich the coroner's jury declined giving a verdict. The |