History of the Church of England from 1660

expended large sums of money on the contest, did not collect a single penny of the rate they had with so much difficulty succeeded in laying. It had become evident that the impost was not worth the trouble and expense incurred in obtaining it, and after the two defeats mentioned above, it was gradually expiring, when Mr. Gladstone's Church Rate Bill virtually abolished it, except in a few secluded villages in which the payment became optional.

We have now followed the fortunes of the English Church up to a period that will still be fresh in the recollection of most of my readers. We have seen her assailed with continually increasing vigour from without, and torn by multiplied divisions and dissensions within. And we are naturally led to ask, in concluding, what will the end be? Will she be overpowered by the increasing numbers of her opponents, or will she find some impregnable Torres Vedras on which, securely posted, she may sally forth on her assailants and repel them? These are questions which are rapidly coming into the domain of practical politics, with which history does not interfere. But history, while it confines itself chiefly to tracing the course of events that have happened in the past, may help us to guide to some extent the evolution which is taking place in our day, and to anticipate the results to which it is likely to lead in the future. Thus much, at

* The heights on which the Duke of Wellington arrested the progress of the French invading army, hurled it back, and ultimately forced it to evacuate the Spanish Peninsula.

all events, we can discern, that we are posting on with portentous rapidity to a crisis in which many of the questions to which we have referred will have to be determined. It is quite time now that men's thoughts should be directed to the consideration of problems which are the most difficult that have ever been presented to the people of this country, and must necessarily exert a most important influence on the whole course of her future development.

INDEX.

Abolition of slavery, attitude of the
clergy towards the, 315
Absolution of Charles II. pro-
nounced by Ken, 125
Accession of Charles II., 12; of
James II., 127; of William and
Mary, 218; of Anne, 259; of
George I., 286

Act for the augmentation of poor
benefices, 119; of Uniformity
receives the royal assent, 46;
changes suggested by Cosin em-
bodied in the, 109; the Five-
mile, 164

Addams, Dr., his argument on Dr.
Hampden's election, 338
Addison, his admiration for Tillot-
son's style, 228; Sacheverell
shares his chamber at Magdalen
College, 270; effect on the Church
of his writings, 301
Address, congratulatory, presented
to James by the bishops, 128;
of the bishops in convocation to
William III., 234

Advice given by Sancroft to his
suffragans, 192-197; given by the
bishops to James II., 203-205.
Advowsons, traffic in still unre-
formed, 384

Esthetics of Tractarianism, 360,

Aggression, the papal, 348; not a
novelty, 353

Agitation, anti-slavery, 315
Allegiance, necessary alteration of
the oath of, 236

Allwood, Mr., counsel for the de-
fence on Baxter's trial, 139
Alms, Tenison's preaching and prac-
tice on the subject of, 254
Alterations in the Liturgy proposed
by Sancroft, 199

America, Penn's colony founded in,
144
Amusements, repression of, by the
Presbyterians, 15, 19

Anglican Church, passive obedience
the doctrine of, 167; proposed
introduction of its system into
Prussia, 287

Anne, Queen, brought as princess
by Compton into William's camp,
235; her accession, 259; her
relations with Tenison, 261; her
zeal for the Church, 262; her
popularity, 267; her abject sub-
mission to the Marlboroughs, 268;
her suspicions of Whig designs,
273; her sympathy with Sache-
verell, 276; she frees herself from
the Marlboroughs and the Whigs,
279; her independent appoint-
ment of bishops, 280; her inde-
cision as to the Pretender, 283;
her death apprehended, 284; her
death, 285; she supports the
scheme for the union of the Eng-
lish and Prussian Churches, 287

Antagonism of James II. towards

the English Church, 134
Apostolical constitutions, Whiston's
high estimate of their authority,
281
Apostolical succession, doctrine of,
held by High and Low Church-
men, 8, 70, 74; a bar to union
with Lutheranism, 288; tacit re-
nunciation of the doctrine of, 308;
general acceptance of the doctrine
of, 361

Appeal, the Court of, the Gorham

case brought before, 343; ob-
jected to by the High Church
party, 345; proposed substitution
of the bishops for it in doctrinal
cases, 346; its laxity, 380
Appropriation of pews, 385
Archbishops of Canterbury in the
time of George I., Carlyle quoted
as to the, 297; their nullity in
Cobbett's time, 309
Arches, the Court of, the Gorham
case brought before, 343
Architecture, study of, by the High
Church party, 374

Argument of Charles II. in favour

of Romanism, printed and dis-
tributed by James II., 131
Arian doctrines, Dr. Whiston ac-
cused of advocating, 281
Army, admission of Roman Catholic
officers into the, 142
Articles, the Thirty-nine, agreed on
by the joint convocations of both
provinces, 232; signature of, by
those holding Romish doctrines
discussed, 320; view taken of
them by the Rev. W. G. Ward,
327
Ash-Wednesday, William and Mary
proclaimed on, 218

Association, the Church, its objects,
378

Atterbury, Bishop, his part in Sa-
cheverell's trial, 275; is supposed
to have composed Sacheverell's
defence, 276; he favours the
claims of the Pretender, 284;
brings in the Schisms Bill, 284;

heads the disaffected clergy on
the accession of George I., 286;
his plots for bringing back the
Pretender, 292; his trial, 293;
his exile, 294; he asserts the
rights of the Lower House of
Convocation, 295
Augmentation of poor benefices from
the incomes of the higher clergy
enacted, 119; effected by Queen
Anne's Bounty, 265

Authority of the Church, dispute as
to the seat of, 362

Bagot, Dr., Bishop of Oxford, his
censure of Newman, 326
Bank, the, attacked by the Gordon
rioters, 305

Baptism, use of the cross in, 20,

229; of the Pretender, 208; ex-
treme views of Irving on the
subject of, 316

Barrow, Bishop, quoted as to pas-
sive obedience to kings, 168, 272,

note

Bates, Dr., a friend of Richard
Baxter's, 139

Bath and Wells, the Bishop of,
signs the petition against reading
James's declaration, 171; pre-
sentation of the Bishopric of, to
Dr. Ken, 173

Baxter, Richard, declines a bishop-

ric, but is licensed to preach, 22;
his account of the refusal of the
Independents to accept general
toleration, 31; is present at the
Savoy Conference, 39; driven
from the Church by the Act of
Uniformity, 51; abstract of his
trial, 136; brutality of Jeffreys
towards him, 139; his sentence,
140; he makes common cause
with the Church in rejecting the
declaration, 178

Bell and Lancaster, their educa-
tional system, 390

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