OXFORD:

1. PICKARD HALL, M.A., AND J. H. STACY,

PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY.

CONTENTS.

BOOK I.

SEPTEMBER 1654-JUNE 1657.

HISTORY:-OLIVER'S FIRST PROTECTORATE CONTINUED.

BIOGRAPHY:-MILTON'S LIFE AND SECRETARYSHIP THROUGH THE FIRST

PROTECTORATE CONTINUED.

CHAP..

I.

I.

SECTION I Oliver and his First Parliament: Sept. 3, 1654-

Jan. 22, 1654-5.-Meeting of the First Parliament of the Protec-

torate: Its Composition: Anti-Oliverians numerous in it: Their

Four Days' Debate in challenge of Cromwell's Powers: Debate

stopped by Cromwell: His Speech in the Painted Chamber :

Secession of some from the Parliament: Acquiescence of the

rest by Adoption of The Recognition: Spirit and Proceedings of

the Parliament still mainly Anti-Oliverian: Their Four Months'

Work in Revision of the Protectoral Constitution: Chief Debates

in those Four Months: Question of the Protector's Negatives:

Other Incidental Work of the Parliament: Question of Religious

Toleration and of the Suppression of Heresies and Blasphemies:

Committee and Sub-Committee on this Subject: Baxter's Par-

ticipation: Tendency to a Limited Toleration only, and Vote

against the Protector's Prerogative of more: Case of John Biddle,

the Socinian.-Insufficiency now of our former Synopsis of

English Sects and Heresies: New Sects and Denominations :

The Fifth-Monarchy Men: The Ranters: The Muggletonians

and other Stray Fanatics: Boehmenists and other Mystics:

The Quakers or Friends: Account of George Fox, and Sketch

of the History of the Quakers to the year 1654.-Policy of the

Parliament with their Bill for a New Constitution: Parliament

outwitted by Cromwell and dissolved: No Result .

SECTION II. Between the Parliaments, or the Time of Arbitrari-

ness: Jan. 22, 1654-55-Sept. 17, 1656.- Avowed "Arbi-

trariness of this Stage of the Protectorate, and Reasons for it.

-First Meeting of Cromwell and his Council after the Dissolu-

tion Major-General Overton in Custody: Other Arrests:

Suppression of a wide Republican Conspiracy and of Royalist

Risings in Yorkshire and the West: Revenue Ordinance and

Mr. Cony's Opposition at Law: Deference of Foreign Govern-

ments: Blake in the Mediterranean: Massacre of the Pied-

montese Protestants: Details of the Story and of Cromwell's

Proceedings in consequence: Penn in the Spanish West Indies:

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