[594] There are remarks on this Bill written by Mr. John Humphrey in Baxter's Life, iii. 144.
[595] Parl. Hist., iv. 571–574.
[596] Parliament was adjourned on the 29th of March, to the 20th of October; then prorogued to the 27th, and again on the 4th of November to the 7th of January, 1674.
[597] Parl. Hist. iv. 553–6.
[598] Lingard (xii. 27) states the fact on the authority of the French Ambassador (Dalrymple, ii. App. 90), and the motives on the authority of Marvell, i. 494.
[599] Parl. Hist. iv. 561, March 12.
[600] Lord Campbell's Lives of the Lord Chancellors, iv. 181.
[601] Burnet, i. 348.
[602] Life of Calamy, i. 102.
[603] Journals, Feb. 24, March 8. After the Declaration had been withdrawn the old licenses gave much trouble. "The present favour which I beg of you is, your sense about Conventicles and meetings, for I am in the Commission of Peace for the University and Town of Cambridge, and am threatened by some busy informers with the penalty of £100, which you know the Act enjoins, if I grant not warrants upon complaint against them. Now I beseech you to write by the first post, or let Mr. Ball, or some of your people write to me what you know to be His Majesty's sense in this particular, whether we should grant warrants to suppress them, they having license to preach and meet."—State Papers, April 5, 1673. Mr. Carr to Sir J. Williamson.