Disputes in the English Parliament--The Attainder of Russell
reversed--Other Attainders reversed; Case of Samuel Johnson--Case of
Devonshire--Case of Oates--Bill of Rights--Disputes about a Bill of
Indemnity--Last Days of Jeffreys--The Whigs dissatisfied with
the King--Intemperance of Howe--Attack on Caermarthen--Attack on
Halifax--Preparations for a Campaign in Ireland--Schomberg--Recess
of the Parliament--State of Ireland; Advice of Avaux--Dismission of
Melfort; Schomberg lands in Ulster--Carrickfergus taken--Schomberg
advances into Leinster; the English and Irish Armies encamp near
each other--Schomberg declines a Battle--Frauds of the English
Commissariat--Conspiracy among the French Troops in the English
Service--Pestilence in the English Army--The English and Irish Armies
go into Winter Quarters--Various Opinions about Schomberg's
Conduct--Maritime Affairs--Maladministration of Torrington--Continental
Affairs--Skirmish at Walcourt--Imputations thrown on Marlborough--Pope
Innocent XI. succeeded by Alexander VIII.--The High Church Clergy
divided on the Subject of the Oaths--Arguments for taking the
Oaths--Arguments against taking the Oaths--A great Majority of
the Clergy take the Oaths--The Nonjurors;
Ken--Leslie--Sherlock--Hickes--Collier--Dodwell--Kettlewell;
Fitzwilliam--General Character of the Nonjuring Clergy--The Plan
of Comprehension; Tillotson--An Ecclesiastical Commission
issued.--Proceedings of the Commission--The Convocation of the Province
of Canterbury summoned; Temper of the Clergy--The Clergy ill affected
towards the King--The Clergy exasperated against the Dissenters by
the Proceedings of the Scotch Presbyterians--Constitution of the
Convocation--Election of Members of Convocation; Ecclesiastical
Preferments bestowed,--Compton discontented--The Convocation meets--The
High Churchmen a Majority of the Lower House of Convocation--Difference
between the two Houses of Convocation--The Lower House of Convocation
proves unmanageable.--The Convocation prorogued

TWENTY-four hours before the war in Scotland was brought to a close by
the discomfiture of the Celtic army at Dunkeld, the Parliament broke up
at Westminster. The Houses had sate ever since January without a recess.
The Commons, who were cooped up in a narrow space, had suffered severely
from heat and discomfort; and the health of many members had given way.
The fruit however had not been proportioned to the toil. Th