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CONTENTS.
BOOK III.
CHAPTER I.
Page.
New great seal ordered.-Term, Ordinance, changed to that of
Act of Parliament.-House of lords voted useless.-Mo-
narchy to be abolished.-Commissioners of the seal.-Coun-
cil of state chosen.-Acts of parliament, abolishing mo-
narchy, and taking away the house of peers.
FIRST YEAR OF THE COMMONWEALTH.
CHAPTER II.
Critical state of the new government.-State of the represen-
tation in parliament.-Scheme for the admission of mem-
bers.-Office of lord admiral put in commission.-Bradshaw
made president of the council of state.-Milton appointed
secretary for foreign tongues.
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CHAPTER III.
Condition of the royalists engaged in the second war.-Second
high court of justice.-Trial and execution of Hamilton,
Holland and Capel.-Mutiny in the army.-Hostility of
John Lilburne.-Agreement of the people.-Ordinance of
compensation to Lilburne for his sufferings. He intrigues
with the soldiery.-General orders of Fairfax.-Court mar-
tial on the malcontents.-Offensive publications of Lil-
burne. He is committed to the Tower.
CHAPTER IV.
Cromwel appointed to the command in Ireland.-Mutineers
declare themselves.-They are known by the name of Level-
lers.-Objects they propose.-Consequences that would
have attended their success.-Extent of the insurrection.-
March of the insurgents from Salisbury.-Rapidity of Fair-
fax and Cromwel.-Treacherous proceedings of White, the
messenger of Fairfax.-Affair of Burford.-The insurrec-
tion is quelled.-Account of the Diggers. .
CHAPTER V.
State of the university of Oxford.-Ruinous condition to which
it had been reduced by the royalists.-Preachers sent down
by the parliament.-Ordinance of visitors.-Committee of
lords and commons for appeals.-Failure of the first visita-
tion.-Earl of Pembroke restored as chancellor of the uni-
versity. Second visitation.-Pembroke takes possession of
his office.-New heads of colleges installed.-Academical
honours conferred on Fairfax and his officers.
CHAPTER VI.
Changes in the corporation of London.-Places of the judges
filled.-Proceedings respecting Lilburne.-Act of treasons.
CHAPTER VII.
Question respecting the dissolution of parliament.-Reasons
which prompted the government to defer that crisis.-Ques-
tion of an adjournment of parliament debated.
CHAPTER VIII.
Charles the Second invited to Scotland and Ireland.-Makes
his election for the latter.-State of Ireland.-Viscount
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Lisle lands there as lieutenant.-He is superseded.—Or-
mond surrenders Dublin to the parliament, and leaves the
kingdom.-Fluctuations of success in that country.-Or-
mond returns in the close of 1648.-Forms an alliance with
the Catholics.-Proclaims king Charles the Second.
CHAPTER IX.
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Cromwel appointed lord lieutenant of Ireland.-Disagreement
of the Catholics and O'Neile.-Successes of Ormond.—He
sustains a defeat.—Cromwel lands.—Policy adopted by him.
-He reduces Drogheda and Wexford.-Lord Broghil.-
Successes in Ulster and Munster.-Kilkenny taken.-And
Clonmel..
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CHAPTER X.
Lilburne. His publications.-He tampers with the soldiery.
-Mutiny at Oxford.-Lilburne offers to withdraw to Ame-
rica. His trial
SECOND YEAR OF THE COMMONWEALTH
CHAPTER XI.
New council of state.-Its distribution into committees.-Law
appointments.-Provision voted by parliament for some of
its most deserving servants
CHAPTER XII.
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Act for reorganizing a high court of justice.-Persons selected
to be tried by this court by way of retaliation.—They are
spared.-Punishment of certain conspirators.-Trial and
execution of sir Henry Hyde.-Of captain Browne Bushel. 187
CHAPTER XIII.
State of Scotland.-Discussions between the Scottish parlia-
ment and the English.-Charles the Second invited by the
Scots.-Disastrous expedition of Montrose.-Landing of
Charles.-Fairfax and Cromwel ordered to march against
him.-Fairfax resigns.-Cromwel appointed commander
in chief.
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CHAPTER XIV.
Cromwel marches into Scotland.-Ludlow made lieutenant-
general of the horse in Ireland.-Cooke chief justice of
Munster. Charles's compliances with the kirk of Scotland.
-Manœuvres of the two generals, Cromwel and Leslie.—
Battle of Dunbar.-Charles withdraws from the Scottish
army. Reconciliation.-Manœuvres. .
THIRD YEAR OF THE COMMONWEALTH
CHAPTER XV.
Constitution of the council of state altered.-Reasons of this
change. Committees.--Milton: his Defensio pro Populo
Anglicano.
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CHAPTER XVI.
Charles crowned at Scone.-Cromwel attacked by sickness.—
He enters Perth.-English presbyterians correspond with
the king. Christopher Love tried and executed.-King
advances into England.—Battle of Worcester.
CHAPTER XVII.
Ireton lord deputy of Ireland.—Siege of Limerick.-Integrity
and rectitude of Ireton.-Severities employed by him.-
His death.
FOURTH YEAR OF THE COMMONWEALTH.
CHAPTER XVIII.
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Proceedings of Cromwel-Question of successive parliaments
taken into consideration.-The decision procrastinated.—
Cromwel presses the question.-IIis reasoning and inten-
tion.-Period fixed for the close of the present parliament. 296
CHAPTER XIX.
Conquest of Scotland completed by Monk.-Union of Eng-
land and Scotland proposed.-Benefits with which it was
attended.-Commissioners sent into Scotland to establish it. 307
CHAPTER XX.
Lambert named lord deputy of Ireland. He declines the com-
mission, and Fleetwood is appointed to command there.-
Settlement of Ireland.—Question of toleration to the Ca-
tholics. Proposition of union. .
CHAPTER XXI.
John Lilburne.-Sense in which he takes the engagement.-
His pecuniary claims on the public discharged.-Engages
in a further adventure.-Attacks the committee of seques-
trations for Durham, and the committee for delinquents'
estates. He is banished for life.-Wendy Oxford.-Office
of licencer of the press extinguished.-Prosecutions of
printers and authors.-Marchamont Nedham.-Clement
Walker.
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CHAPTER XXII.
Hostile feelings with which the commonwealth-government
is regarded by foreign powers.-Situation of the government
of the United Provinces.-Embassy of Dorislaus.-He is
assassinated.-Charles withdraws from the Hague.--Enter-
prises of Rupert.-Appointment of envoys.-Distribution
of the navy-Reprisals on Portugal.-Reprisals on France.
-Vacillation of the court of Madrid.-Assassination of
Ascham.-Conclusion of Rupert's adventures.
CHAPTER XXIII.
Overtures of the courts of Lisbon and Madrid.-The latter
favourably received.-Negociation with Portugal broken off.
-Death of William the Second, prince of Orange.-St. John
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