Ontario High School History of England . nding on evil pleasures the moneyvoted for keeping up the fleet. When the Dutch found theThames almost undefended, they sailed up the river andcut off supplies from the capital, where, for the first time,was heard the roar of foreign guns, so near as to cause apanic. Charles saw that it was time to peace, and, in1667, was signed the Treaty of Breda. In spite of disasters,England gained something by thewar; for New York was left in herhands. Little did either side im-agine the amazing future whichlay before that neglected colony. The dismissal of C
Ontario High School History of England . nding on evil pleasures the moneyvoted for keeping up the fleet. When the Dutch found theThames almost undefended, they sailed up the river andcut off supplies from the capital, where, for the first time,was heard the roar of foreign guns, so near as to cause apanic. Charles saw that it was time to peace, and, in1667, was signed the Treaty of Breda. In spite of disasters,England gained something by thewar; for New York was left in herhands. Little did either side im-agine the amazing future whichlay before that neglected colony. The dismissal of Clarendon, 1667.—The Parliament was now anxiousto punish some one for the disgracethat had come to England throughthe misuse of public money, andits anger turned against blame for other misdoings ofthe king fell on the had actually obligedFrance to cede the seaport of Dunkirk to England (p. 308).and this gave her always a foothold in France, a state ofaffairs which Louis XIV did not Like. So, in 1662, he. Louis XIV ok France(1638-1715). THE RESTORATION 828 persuaded Charles to sell Dunkirk back to him for £200, king pocketed the money, but a London mob howledagainst Clarendon and declared that he had been bribed by-France. Now they said it was his fault, too, that the Dutchwar had gone so badly. Charles II was weary of theaustere minister who rebuked his vices, and the end wasthat, in 1667, the Commons impeached him for danger, as he thought, of his life, he fled to the spent his remaining years in writing his great historyof the Civil War, but he never returned to England. The persecution of Presbyterians in Scotland.—The Res-toration had broken up the union of England with Scotlandand Ireland, and these states resumed their former posi-tions, each with a separate Parliament. To Scotland, freetrade with England had been profitable. Now this cameto an end. In respect to religion, also, there were somedisturbing
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