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Dryden.33

The Hind and Panther.35

Change in the Policy of the Court towards the Puritans . . 37

Partial Toleration granted in Scotland ...... 41

Closeting; it is unsuccessful.. 43

Admiral Herbert; Declaration of Indulgence.44

Feeling of the Protestant Dissenters .46

Feeling of the Church of England.. 48

The Court and the Church contend for the Favour of the Puritans 49

Letter to a Dissenter; Conduct of the Dissenters .... 52

Some of them side with the Court; Care; Alsop; Rosewcll • . 55

Lobb; Penn.56

The Majority of the Puritans are against the Court; Baxter; Ilowe 57

Bunyan .. . 58

Kilfin ..60

The Prince and Princess of Orange hostile to the Declaration of

Indulgence ..64

Their Views respecting the English Roman Catholics vindicated . 66

Enmity of James to Burnet.72

Mission of Dykvell to England . . 74

Negotiations of Dykvelt with English Statesmen; Danby . . 75

Nottingham ..76

Halifax * 77

Devonshire •••••«•••••• 78

Edward Russell • ..81

Compton; Herbert; Churchill.* 82

Lady Churchill and the Princess Anne.84

Dykvelt returns to the Hague with Letters from many eminent

Englishmen.. 87

Zulestein’s Mission.. . . . . 83

Growing Enmity between James and William • , . . 89

Inlluencc of the Dutch Press.90

Correspondence of Stewart and Fagel ...... 91

Casteluiaine’s Embassy to Rome . • . . • . 92