Ecclesiastical History of England, Volume 4—The Church of the Restoration [part 2]

by John Stoughton

[226] Mackintosh’s Hist. of the Revolution, 253; also, Ibid., D’Adda, 1/11 June.

[227] D’Adda, 15/22 June; Mackintosh, 262.

[228] State Trials, iv; D’Oyley, i. 297. The first part of the defence was entrusted to Sawyer. That part which related to the dispensing power was in the hands of Finch.

[229] Reresby, 348. A letter of Barillon (12 Juillet) leaves no room for doubt as to the reason of their discharge.

[230] Hunter’s Life of Oliver Heywood, 163, 187, 219.

[231] Life of Oliver Heywood, 235.

[232] Hunter’s Life of Heywood, 244.

[233] Hunter’s Life of Heywood, 285–6.

[234] Neal, iii. 600.

[235] For preparations made in Oliver’s lifetime with a view to this meeting, see Church of the Commonwealth, 514. For a notice of the place of meeting, see the third volume of this history (Church of the Restoration, i.).