Ontario High School History of England . ouis 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 historyo
Ontario High School History of England . ouis 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 changes. While most of the Scottish people. Banner carried into Battle by some op the More Extreme Covenanters The Hebrew is Yahweh Nissi, Jehovah is my banner (Kx. xvii, 15). clung to Presbyterianism, a few who were influential hadgrown bitter against the narrow bigotry of the ministers. Theking, remembering his former deep humiliation in Scotland, 324 HISTORY OF ENGLAND (p. 297), agreed with them and in 1661 this party brought totrial the Presbyterian leader Argyle, for his support ofthose who had executed Charles I. He had sent the gallantMontrose to the scaffold, and now he himself met a like fate,with two or three other leaders. Again were bishops put in au-thority in the Scottish Church, and a new and bloody chapterof strife began. Ministers who would not accept the bishopshad to give up their churches, and the laws against themwere very like those against the nonconformists in England(p. 318). The Scots met this repression by resistance to thedeath. They revived the signing of the
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