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Chapter II: Charles Stuart 20

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Scotch Treaty with Charles 21

Royalist Intrigues 25

Charles in Scotland 31

Declaration of the Presbyterians 32

Cromwell in Scotland 35

Battle of Dunbar 37

Coronation of Charles in Scotland 39

Protesters and Resolutionists 41

The Army and the King 42

Battle of Worcester 43

Christopher Love 44

His Trial 46

His Death 48

CHAPTER III.

Little Parliament 51

Francis Rouse, Speaker 54

Harrison, Desborough, Lambert, and Tomlinson 55

Alteration of the Marriage Law 56

Report of the Tithe Committee 59

Fifth Monarchy Men 61

Feake at Blackfriars 65

Feake and Powell 68

Cromwell made Protector 72

State Affairs at the Time 75

Cromwell's Policy 79

CHAPTER IV.

CROMWELL'S ECCLESIASTICAL POLICY.

State Recognition 81

State Control 83

State Support 88

State Protection 89

State Penalties 90

Cromwell's Establishment not, properly speaking, a Church 93

Moral Discipline 94

CHAPTER V.

First Protectorate Parliament 96

Strength of the Presbyterian Party 98

Limits of Toleration 99

Treatment of John Biddle 102

CHAPTER VI.

Commissioners at Whitehall 104

Ejection of Scandalous Ministers 107

Dr. Edward Pocock 109

Trouble with Episcopalian Royalists 110

Proceedings against them 111

Major-Generals 113

Ecclesiastical Affairs in Scotland 117

---- in Wales 118

---- in Ireland 121

Sir Henry Vane 123

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