nanters, 152.—The marquis of Hamilton sent down high-commissioner for Scotland,
152.—Bold motions of the Covenanters, 153.— The king's resentment of the Cove-
nant, 153.— The commissioners' proposals to the faction, 154.—The king's concessions
to the faction, 155.—The Tables' instructions for managing the elections, 156.—A
scandalous summons issued by the presbytery of Edinburgh, 157.-A general assem-
bly at Glasgow, 158. — The bishops' protestation against it, 158.— The commission
dissolves the assembly; which sits notwithstanding, 161.—The business done by this
pretended assembly, 162.—The Covenanters keep an agent at London : this agent
was Eleazar Borthwick, a minister, 162.—The Covenanters' disloyal tenets, 162.-
Some scandalous passages in the Covenanters' sermons, 164.—The king's declaration,
and his expedition against the Scots, 165.- The king marches against the Scots, 166.
-He makes an unserviceable pacification at Berwick, 167.—The Scots make a public
declaration of their adherence to their late assembly and covenant, 168.— They misre-
present the treaty in print, 168.—The general assembly at Edinburgh confirms the
proceedings at Glasgow, 169.—The motives to disaffection in the Scottish bishops,
169.–For this there are several precedents, 169.—The parliament confirms the acts of
the Edinburgh assembly, 171.--Bishop Hall's first draught of his book entitled “ The
Divine Right of Episcopacy,” 171.—The archbishop's animadversions upon this tract,
173.-Hall alters his book upon the archbishop's corrections, 176.- The archbishop's
account of his province, 177.—The parliament meets at Westminster, and, not giving
satisfaction, is quickly dissolved, 180.—A convocation at St. Paul's, 181.—They
receive a commission under the broad seal for altering the canons, or making new
ones, 181.-Some new ones made, 181.-The lord-keeper, several of the judges, &c.,
declare the convocation may lawfully sit after the dissolution of the parliament, 183.-
The oath so much excepted against, 183.—The canons approved by the privy-council
and judges, 185.—Exceptions against them answered, 186.-Irish acts in favour of
the Church, 188.— The Scots invade England, 189.—The treaty at Ripon, 189.-
Habernsfield's supposed plot, 189.-The long parliament meets, 190.—Some of the
members declaim against the hierarchy, 190.-Bagshaw's speech examined, 191.-
Lord Digby's speech, 192.—The convocation sits, but does nothing, 193.-Bishop
Williams enlarged, 193.- The service disturbed at St. Margaret's, 194.—The earl of
Strafford impeached, 194.—The resolves of the commons against the canons, 194.-
The archbishop of Canterbury and the earl of Strafford impeached, 195.-Anabap-
tistical heterodoxies, 196.—The king's speech in defence of the bishops, 196.— The
commons' remonstrance, 197.—The king's answer, 197.- Articles granted to the
Scots, 198.-Pocklington and Bray censured by the house of lords, 199.—Smart's
complaint against Dr. Cosins, 200.--A vindication of Cosins from Fuller's misrepre-
sentation, 201. A bill passed in the house of commons for taking away the bishops'
votes in parliament, &c., 202.-A committee for religion, 203.—The earl of Strafford's
trial, 205.- The entireness of the bishops' peerage, 205.—The earl makes a significant
defence, 206.-He is proceeded against by a bill of attainder, 207.-The bishops move
to be excused voting at his trial, 208.—The parliament and court insulted by the
rabble, 208.-The king, not satisfied with the bill, puts the case to the bishops, 209.-
The earl of Strafford's letter to the king, 210.-His execution, and character, 211-12.
- Dr. Hacket's speech before the house of commons in behalf of deans and chapters,
213.-Burges speaks on the other side, 215.-The protestation explained, 215.—The
viscount Newark's speech in defence of the bishops and clergy, 216.— The courts of
the High Commission and Star-chamber put down, 219.–Archbishop Williams' bill
for a farther regulation of the bishops' jurisdiction, &c., 220_ The commons' vote
touching Church government, 221.-Wren, bishop of Ely, impeached by the com-
mons, 222.-An impeachment of thirteen bishops of the late convocation, 222.— The
- prosecution of them dropt, 224.-The king goes to Scotland, and proves unfortunate
in his conduct, 224.—An order of the lords against innovating in religion, 225.-- The
commons' declaration concerning innovations in the ceremonies, 226.—The bishops'
extraction misreported by the lord Brook, 227.–Pym's speech against the bishops,
228.-Solicitor St. John's argument against the bishops' peerage, &c., 229.-- The
bishops one of the three estates in parliament, 230.— The commons in their remon-