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HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
OCT 1 8 1982
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CONTENTS
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THE SECOND VOLUME
CHAPTER XV
ENGLAND AFTER DUNBAR.
1650 September 10.-Enthusiasm at Westminster
Parliament and the Presbyterians
August 9.-The Blasphemy Act
The Ranters
September 27.-Repeal of the Recusancy Acts
Cromwell on legal abuses
The Grand Committee on Elections resumes its sittings
July 24-The younger children of Charles I. to be sent
abroad
September 8.-Death of the Lady Elizabeth
The Duke of Gloucester kept at Carisbrooke
July 18.-Execution of Captain Levinz
Case of Eusebius Andrews .
August 22.-Execution of Andrews
Sentence on Sir John Gell.
November.-Orders against Presbyterian ministers . December.-Royalist outbreak in Norfolk.
1651 January.-The Royalist scheme of insurrection oozes out
Measures of the Council
February 17.-Election of the third Council of State
March 4.-Execution of Sir Henry Hyde
March 29.-Execution of Brown Bushell
Fresh information on the Royalist plot
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1651 Capture of Birkenhead
Projected Scottish expedition into Lancashire.
Importance of the new militia
March 31-May 28.-Confessions of Tom Coke
April. Harrison ordered to guard the North-West
June 20-July 5.-Love's trial.
July 15.-Love's execution suspended.
March. Milton's Defence of the People of England.
Milton as a writer in Mercurius Politicus
July 22.-Cromwell asked to intercede for Love
August 22.-Execution of Love and Gibbons
Expenditure of the Commonwealth
July 16.-The first Confiscation Act
Sale of the pictures of Charles I.
Proposed demolition of cathedrals
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June 30-July 14.-Cromwell fails to bring on a battle
July 17-20.-Cromwell sends forces into Fife
July 20.-Lambert defeats Brown at Inverkeithing.
Cromwell resolves to carry his army into Fife
July 23.-Cromwell's conference with Harrison
August 2.-Surrender of Perth
August 21-24.-Robert Lilburne's movements
August 13.-Junction of Lambert and Harrison August 16. Skirmish at Warrington Bridge August 17.-Conference between Charles and Derby August 18.-A meeting at Warrington
News that the Scots have marched for England
August 2.-Cromwell in pursuit.
August 4.-Cromwell encourages Parliament
August 5.-Cromwell's instructions to Lambert and
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1651 August 25.-Derby defeated at Wigan
Charles pushes on
-Charles reaches Worcester
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August 24.-Cromwell joins Lambert and Harrison
August 28.-Upton Bridge secured
Activity of the militia
September 3.-The battle of Worcester
Part taken by the militia in the battle.
Constitutional outlook
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CHAPTER XVII
ENGLAND AFTER WORCESTER
1651 September 10.-Proclamation for the arrest of Charles Stuart
September 3.-Charles's flight from Worcester
September 4.-He reaches Whiteladies
September 6.--Charles in the oak
In hiding at Boscobel
September 8.---At Moseley Hall
September 10.-Starts with Jane Lane from Bentley Hall
Reaches Abbotsleigh and Trent .
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His fictitious account of his escape
September 22.-Goes to Charmouth
Fails in his attempt to escape
October 16.-Crosses to France from Brighthelmstone
September 12.-Cromwell's return to Westminster.
September 16.-He receives the thanks of Parliament.
August 28.-Capture of the Committee of Estates at Alyth
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September 1.-Dundee stormed by Monk
Submission of the greater part of Scotland
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October 31-December 12.- -Surrender of the Isle of Man
1651
October 8.-A Bill brought in for a dissolution of Parlia-
October 2.-Resolution for diminishing the army.
June 25.-Case of Lord Howard of Escrick
October 15-November 2.-Two remarkable pamphlets
November 18.-A date fixed for the dissolution
Chances against Parliament
November 24.- Election of the fourth Council of State
CHAPTER XVIII
PROJECTS OF REFORM
1651 December 10.-A Conference at the Speaker's house
Cromwell favours constitutional monarchy
April.-Hobbes's Leviathan .
Winstanley's Law of Freedom
1650-51 Cromwell and Lilburne
1652 January 15.-Sentence on Primate and Lilburne .
February 24.-The Act of Oblivion
January 17.--Appointment of a Commission on law-reform
Juries fail to give effect to the Adultery Act.
Puritan amusements
Disorganisation in the Church
Presbyterianism only partially in force
Religious enthusiasts .
John Bunyan.
George Fox
Fox charged under the Blasphemy Act
Reeves and Muggleton
John Owen
Proposed legislation for the propagation of the Gospel
John Biddle.
Plan of Owen and others for an ecclesiastical settlement
Cromwell defends religious liberty.
Owen's scheme attacked by Major Butler
Owen's fifteen fundamentals
A substitute for tithes proposed
Milton's Sonnet to Cromwell
Milton's Sonnet to Vane