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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- BOOK XI THE COMMONWEALTH IN ENGLAND, 1649—1653
- BOOK XII THE PROTECTORATE OF OLIVER CROMWELL, 1653–1658
- BOOK XIII FALL OF THE PROTECTORATE AND THE COMMONWEALTH. RESTORATION OF THE MONARCHY, 1658—1660
- BOOK XIV THE FIRST FIVE YEARS UNDER CHARLES II. THE RESTORATION OF THE ANGLICAN CHURCH
- CHAP. I The state of affairs at the Restoration
- CHAP. II The Convention Parliament in the summer of 1660
- CHAP. III Foreign policy. Marriages in the Royal Family
- CHAP. IV Religious differences. The Coronation. A new Parliament
- CHAP. V The first two years of the Long Parliament of the Restoration. The Act of Uniformity
- CHAP. VI Relations with France. Sale of Dunkirk
- CHAP. VII A scheme for reunion with Rome. Claim to the dispensing power. Personal relations in Court and State
- BOOK XV THE DUTCH WARS OF CHARLES II. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE PROTESTANT AND PARLIAMENTARY CHARACTER OF THE CONSTITUTION 1664—1674
CHAP. IV - Religious differences. The Coronation. A new Parliament
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 June 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- BOOK XI THE COMMONWEALTH IN ENGLAND, 1649—1653
- BOOK XII THE PROTECTORATE OF OLIVER CROMWELL, 1653–1658
- BOOK XIII FALL OF THE PROTECTORATE AND THE COMMONWEALTH. RESTORATION OF THE MONARCHY, 1658—1660
- BOOK XIV THE FIRST FIVE YEARS UNDER CHARLES II. THE RESTORATION OF THE ANGLICAN CHURCH
- CHAP. I The state of affairs at the Restoration
- CHAP. II The Convention Parliament in the summer of 1660
- CHAP. III Foreign policy. Marriages in the Royal Family
- CHAP. IV Religious differences. The Coronation. A new Parliament
- CHAP. V The first two years of the Long Parliament of the Restoration. The Act of Uniformity
- CHAP. VI Relations with France. Sale of Dunkirk
- CHAP. VII A scheme for reunion with Rome. Claim to the dispensing power. Personal relations in Court and State
- BOOK XV THE DUTCH WARS OF CHARLES II. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE PROTESTANT AND PARLIAMENTARY CHARACTER OF THE CONSTITUTION 1664—1674
Summary
After the settlement of the Indemnity Bill, by far the most important question before the Convention Parliament was undoubtedly the religious one. The Restoration had been the joint work of the Presbyterians and the Episcopalians; but beyond this nothing had as yet been decided as to their subsequent relations, first of all with each other, and then with the separatist sects whom they had ousted from power, and above all with the Catholics whom they had excluded from any direct share in bringing that event about. The European mind was still steeped in religious ideas. As the result of the intimate connexion which had subsisted from the earliest times between Church and State, religious questions were everywhere, but particularly in England, the very kernel of the political. We may fairly ask whether this is not still the case in our own day; though the fact is less noticed.
In order to understand the controversies which were then pending it will be necessary to look back a few years.
When first the King's restoration was discussed in London, a friend of Monk's, hitherto regarded as a zealous Presbyterians mooted in conversation the kindred question of the reinstatement of the bishops. Monk however objected that the estates of the Episcopal Church had been sold.
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- A History of EnglandPrincipally in the Seventeenth Century, pp. 348 - 364Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1875