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CONTENTS.
LIFE OF ANTHONY WAYNE,
BY JOHN ARMSTRONG.
Page
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LIFE OF SIR HENRY VANE,
BY CHARLES WENTWORTH UPHAM. 85
Sir Henry Vane. — His Parentage and Fami-
ly Connexions. Education.
-
- Early Trav-
els on the Continent. Puritan Sentiments.
Removal to America.
97
CHAPTER III.
Reception in Massachusetts.-Chosen Gover-
nor. State of Parties.· - The Arrangement
with the English Captains. The Affair of
the King's Ensign. - Slight Connexion be-
tween the Colonies and Mother Country.
Governor Vane's Entrance into Salem..
Conference with Indian Chiefs.
CHAPTER IV.
Antinomian Controversy.— Religious Opinions
of the Colonists. - Mrs. Anne Hutchinson's
Arrival in Boston. - Her Weekly Meetings
for Females. Regarded with Jealousy. —
Accused of Heresy. - Violent Contentions on
her Account. Her Tenets and Conduct.-
Her Character.
106
122
CHAPTER V.
Vane an Adherent of Mrs. Hutchinson. - Crisis
of the Controversy. Colonial Election.
Vane superseded.- Supported by Boston.-
One of the earliest Advocates of Religious
Liberty. — Eulogized as such by Mackintosh.
-Colonial Legislation adverse to the Rights
of Conscience. Views of the Colonists on
the Subject of Religious Liberty. - Vane's
Controversy with Winthrop.- His Embarka
tion for England.
141
CHAPTER VI.
Sequel of Mrs. Hutchinson's History. — Her
Memory calumniated.
secution.
The Spirit of Per-
161
CHAPTER VII.
Vane's Arrival in England. Married.
Elected by Kingston upon Hull to Parlia-
ment. - Long Parliament. - Made Treasur-
er of the Navy. — Knighted. Quarrel
between his Father and the Earl of Straf-
ford.-Characters given of Vane by Antho-
ny Wood, by Clarendon, by Ludlow, and by
Hallam.
165
CHAPTER VIII.
Strafford's Impeachment.—Mr. Pym.- Privy
Counsellors first put upon Oath. Testimo-
ny of the elder Vane.· · Alienation between
Strafford condem-
CHAPTER IX.
Religion the Spirit of the Age in the Time of
Vane. His religious Character.
- His re-
ligious Principles. - Clarendon's Account of
them. Burnet's. Hume's..
Mackintosh's
Opinion of Vane's Writings.- Vane a Cal-
b
179
vinist. Tolerant towards all Sects. - Se-
lections from his Writings on Toleration.-
His Views of the Fall of Man. Debate on
Episcopacy in 1641.-Vane's Speech.-As-
sembly of Divines. .
CHAPTER X.
Civil War.-Solemn League and Covenant.
Treaty with the King. - Vane's Speech. -
Colonel Pride's Purge. - Rump Parliament.
·Vane retires from Parliament. - Execu-
tion of the King. · Vane returned to the
Administration of the Government. Con-
ducts the naval War with Holland.
- Blake
and Van Tromp. - Vane reports to Parlia
ment a Bill for Parliamentary Reform.
Milton's Panegyric upon Him.
CHAPTER XI.
Cromwell's treasonable Ambition.
199
220
the Parliament by military Force.-Charac-
ter of the Long Parliament, — Vane returns
to private Life. "Retired Man's Medita-
tions." Cromwell's religious Professions. . 237
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CHAPTER XII.
The "Healing Question."- First Proposal of
a Written Constitution. A Constitution
Extracts from the
"Healing Question." Remarks.
250
275
CHAPTER XIII.
Conduct of Cromwell in Reference to the
"Healing Question."-Vane imprisoned in
Character of Cromwell.
Carisbrook Castle.
– Godwin's Contrast of Vane and Cromwell.
-Vane released from Prison.· Letter to
James Harrington on a " Balance in Popu
lar Government." · Cromwell continues to
persecute Vane.
CHAPTER XIV.
Richard Cromwell, Protector. - New Parlia-
ment summoned. -Vane elected from King-
ston upon Hull, Bristol, and Whitchurch. -
Republican Party re-organized. - Vane's
Speech. Richard abdicates. Government
passes into the Hands of Republicans. — In-
trigues of the Army.— Treachery of Monk.
-Charles the Second restored.-Vane im-
Sent to Scilly.
prisoned.
CHAPTER XV.
"An
His Occupation while a Prisoner.
Epistle General, &c."-" The Face of the
Times.". "Meditations on Death."—"Let-
ter to his Wife." Vane removed to the
Tower.
CHAPTER XVI.
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