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CONTENTS

OF THE SIXTH VOLUME

LX THE COMMONWEALTH

State of England — Of Scotland — Of Ireland — Levellers suppressed — Siege of Dublin raised — Tredah stormed — Covenanters — Montrose taken prisoner — Executed — Covenanters — Battle of Dunbar — Of Worcester — King’s escape — The commonwealth — Dutch war — Dissolution of the parliament

LXI

Cromwel’s birth and private life — Barebone’s parliament — Cromwel made protector — Peace with Holland — A new parliament — Insurrection of the royalists — State of Europe — War with Spain — Jamaica conquered — Success and death of admiral Blake — Domestic administration of Cromwel — Humble Petition and Advice — Dunkirk taken — Sickness of the protector — His death — And character

LXII

Richard acknowledged protector — A parliament — Cabal of Wallingford House — Richard deposed — Long parliament or Rump restored — Conspiracy of the royalists — Insurrection — Suppressed — Parliament expelled — Committee of safety — Foreign affairs — General Monk — Monk declares for the parliament — Parliament restored — Monk enters London, declares for a free parliament — Secluded members restored — Long parliament dissolved — New parliament — The Restoration — Manners and arts

LXIII CHARLES II

New ministry — Act of indemnity — Settlement of the revenue — Trial and execution of the regicides — Dissolution of the convention — Parliament — Prelacy restored — Insurrection of the Millenarians — Affairs of Scotland — Conference at the Savoy — Arguments for and against a comprehension — A new parliament — Bishops’ seats restored — Corporation act — Act of uniformity — King’s marriage — Trial of Vane — And execution — Presbyterian clergy ejected — Dunkirk sold to the French — Declaration of indulgence — Decline of Clarendon’s credit

LXIV

A new session — Rupture with Holland — A new session — Victory of the English — Rupture with France — Rupture with Denmark — New session — Five-mile act — Sea-fight of four days — Victory of the English — Fire of London — Advances towards peace — Disgrace at Chatham — Peace of Breda — Clarendon’s fall — and banishment — State of France — Character of Lewis XIV. — French invasion of the Low Countries — Negociations — Triple league — Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle — Affairs of Scotland — and of Ireland

LXV

A parliament — The cabal — Their characters — Their counsels — Alliance with France — A parliament — Coventry act — Blood’s crimes — Duke declares himself catholic — Exchequer shut — Declaration of indulgence — Attack of the Smyrna fleet — War declared with Holland — Weakness of the States — Battle of Solebay — Sandwich killed — Progress of the French — Consternation of the Dutch — Prince of Orange Stadtholder — Massacre of the de Wits — Good conduct of the prince — A parliament — Declaration of indulgence recalled — Sea-fight — Another sea-fight — Another sea-fight — Congress of Cologne — A parliament — Peace with Holland

LXVI

Schemes of the cabal — Remonstrances of Sir William Temple — Campaign of 1674 — A Parliament — Passive obedience — A Parliament — Campaign of 1675 — Congress of Nimeguen — Campaign of 1676 — Uncertain conduct of the King — A Parliament — Campaign of 1677 — Parliament’s distrust of the King — Marriage of the Prince of Orange with the Lady Mary — Plan of peace — Negociations — Campaign of 1678 — Negociations — Peace of Nimeguen — State of affairs in Scotland

LXVII

The Popish plot — Oates’s narrative — and character — Coleman’s letters — Godfrey’s murther — General consternation — The parliament — Zeal of the parliament — Bedloe’s narrative — Accusation of Danby — His impeachment — Dissolution of the long parliament — Its character — Trial of Coleman — Of Ireland — New elections — Duke of Monmouth — Duke of York retires to Brussels — New parliament — Danby’s impeachment — Popish plot — New council — Limitations on a popish successor — Bill of exclusion — Habeas corpus bill — Prorogation and dissolution of the parliament — Trial and execution of the five jesuits — and of Langhorne — Wakeman acquitted — State of affairs in Scotland — Battle of Bothwel bridge

LXVIII

State of parties — State of the ministry — Meal-tub plot — Whig and Tory — A new parliament — Violence of the commons — Exclusion bill — Arguments for and against the exclusion — Exclusion bill rejected — Trial of Stafford — His execution — Violence of the commons — Dissolution of the parliament — New parliament at Oxford — Fitzharris’s case — Parliament dissolved — Victory of the royalists

LXIX

State of affairs in Ireland — Shaftesbury acquitted — Argyle’s trial — State of affairs in Scotland — State of the ministry in England — New nomination of sheriffs — Quo warrantos — Great power of the crown — A conspiracy — Shaftesbury retires and dies — Rye-house plot — Conspiracy discovered — Execution of the conspirators — Trial of lord Russel — His execution — Trial of Algernon Sidney — His execution — State of the nation — State of foreign affairs — King’s sickness and death — and character

LXX JAMES II

King’s first transactions — A parliament — Arguments for and against a revenue for life — Oates convicted of pejury — Monmouth’s invasion — His defeat — and execution — Cruelties of Kirke — and of Jefferies — State of affairs in Scotland — Argyle’s invasion — defeat — and execution — A parliament — French persecutions — The dispensing power — State of Scotland — State of Ireland — Breach betwixt the king and the church — Court of ecclesiastical commission — Sentence against the bishop of London — Suspension of the penal laws — State of Ireland — Embassy to Rome — Attempt upon Magdalen College — Imprisonment — Trial, and acquittal of the bishops — Birth of the prince of Wales

LXXI

Conduct of the prince of Orange — He forms a league against France — Refuses to concur with the king — Resolves to oppose the king — Is applied to by the English — Coalition of parties — Prince’s preparations — Offers of France to the King — rejected — Supposed league with France — General discontents — The king retracts his measures — Prince’s declaration — The prince lands in England — General commotion — Desertion of the army — and of prince George — and of the princess Anne — King’s consternation — and flight — General confusion — King seized at Feversham — Second escape — King’s character — Convention summoned — Settlement of Scotland — English convention meets — Views of the parties — Free conferences between the houses — Commons prevail — Settlement of the crown — Manners, arts and sciences

INDEX TO THE SIX VOLUMES