A History of England : Principally in the Seventeenth Century (Paperback)

Book XI. The Commonwealth in England, 1649?1653: 1. Republican ideas and institutions in England. The Levellers; 2. Rinuccini and Cromwell in Ireland; 3. Charles II and Cromwell in Scotland; 4. Growth of the power of the Commonwealth by land and sea; 5. Dissolution of the Long Parliament; 6. The Little Parliament; Book XII. The Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell, 1653?1658: 1. Oliver Cromwell and his elevation to the Protectorate; 2. Embassy to Sweden. Peace with Holland; 3. The Parliament of 1654; 4. Military government. Religious tolerance; 5. Rupture with Spain; 6. The Parliament of 1656, 1657. Idea of a Cromwellian monarchy; 7. The general position of the Protectorate at home and abroad in 1657 and 1658; 8. Death of Oliver Cromwell; Book XIII. Fall of the Protectorate and the Commonwealth. Restoration of the Monarchy, 1658?1660: Introduction; 1. Attempt to continue the Protectorate; 2. Attempt to form a Commonwealth on a new basis; 3. Royalist movements in the summer of 1659; 4. Supremacy and constitutional projects of the army; 5. Lambert and Monk. Restoration of the Rump Parliament; 6. Anti-republic movement. Monk in the city; 7. Recall of the king; Book XIV. The First Five Years under Charles II. The Restoration of the Anglican Church: 1. The state of affairs at the Restoration; 2. The Convention Parliament in the summer of 1660; 3. Foreign policy. Marriages in the royal family; 4. Religious differences. The Coronation. A new Parliament; 5. The first two years of the Long Parliament of the Restoration. The Act of Uniformity; 6. Relations with France. Sale of Dunkirk; 7. 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: Introduction; 1. The first war with Holland, in the year 1665; 2. Influence of France upon the continuation of war and upon the peace; 3. Fall of the Lord Chancellor Clarendon; 4. Convention at the Hague in January 1668. Triple alliance; 5. Government and parliament in the year 1668; 6. Secret alliance with France, 1669, 1670; 7. Parliamentary sessions from 1669 to 1671; 8. The second war against Holland, 1672; 9. Origin of the Test Act; 10. Peace with Holland; 11. Union of Parliament with the Prince of Orange; 12. Movement in literature.