[531] State Papers, Dom., under dates.
[532] Discourse on the Religion of England, 1667.
[533] Wood's Athen. Ox., iii. 1264.
[534] "It is said that an Act is preparing by some of the House for the dispensing with the Act of Uniformity, which is clearly against the Bishops' government,—another for the punishment of such as have been the occasions of misfortunes befallen this land—as also against those that counselled the dividing the fleet: so that all that find themselves guilty do make interest in the Parliament House. Some have recourse to the Presbyterian party, which they would not do if they were not brought to the utmost extremity."—State Papers, News Letter, Sept. 2/12, 1667.
[535] It is printed in Thorndike's Works, v. 302.
[536] Pepys, Jan. 20 and 31, 1668.
[537] Ibid., 5th Feb.
[538] The part taken by Hale is described in his Life, by Burnet.
[539] Made Bishop in 1675. Barlow's conduct as Bishop did not accord with the liberality which he showed at this period. See in the next volume a notice of his conduct in 1684.
[540] It is stated by Burnet, Hist. i. 259, that Tillotson and Stillingfleet took part in the scheme, but Baxter does not say so, though he alludes to them as friendly to the scheme of 1675. Perhaps Burnet confounded the two attempts.