It was one thing, however, to conquer in the field of argument, and another thing to disarm the intolerance of those in power. The Parliament which met in 1671, goaded on by those sleepless eccle-
' Defence and Continuation of Ecclesiast. Polity, and Preface to Bramhall. Onne, p. 261.
2 Campbell's Essay on English Poetry, p. 241. D'Israeli's Miscellanies of Lite- rature, p. 238.
^ Burnet, referring to this controversy, speaks of Marvell as " the liveliest droll of his age, who writ in a hurlesque strain, but with so peculiar and so entertaining a conduct, that, from the king down to the tradesman, his books were read with great pleasure." — Own Times, i. 382.
* D'Israeli's Miscellauies, pp. 234, 239.
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w«>i»r\|wea^vv«s iJiT> eMivxivv4»«f»>l >ivf lht^> mt>i*siiTy>s «\Mst ^»n hiavi? Itni^
«f tikem^ lik*? Owieai. iVij-ai\iiuA* ii as *^ *ft t^xj>t\lstH>t. ^ftxxrviinsr ti^ the CKfitcmii ia Jforoier ikw-ft?s i* ilse y«t^v ami sectmiv of iho kingvioom, Uik«il tke' ^orhoii^ n>an<» mij^ljj be denied in I^i«^iament>'*— -jovMbr took sikielt«r \UH)er iis jwv^Yisl^xnsiv*
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of s«>numeai osn ]\indMixtoui;»i iTOibiv juni *$ *n auTidotic' to F- / Sioeiium. *»d Infi^iol oyaiiiow^* Owe« be^> tk> pjneia»,-i» more p^iii^^c \ in Lcundon to s» iv^^iW cv\ngre^<aon ; *iivl W$ vieneraWe fiinni Jcei^lk Caryl, having: diovl >ao>oa> ai^er ibe deolaraiioin of in<bil§e«ee, A^ ewngre^iivMis oa' tbe ix«\> miuisarers cv>usie«ie\i tv> xinite under the numjaiiry cvf Owen, in ibe plaii>? of wosrship in LesswienbaU Stix?er,* OiPenV obxiivb-Kxi puresenis ibe name$ of s»c«ne of tbe cbieJfe of Non- Qonlonniiy a? n^einbei^ of bis tkvk. and " bonoiirable Tronien not s^ feir,^'* Amon^ oibers. tbe*tf bave been iftnuid tbe nam<e€i of move than 0119 of ibe bejwes of ibe army of ibe Oo*nmo«xreahb, — sweb as Le«vi diaries: Fle^e^wvxvi aini Ooiv^aiel Detsboiivmgb; wrtain membeKi of thi? Abney £iuu)y, in xrboeie bo^raWe mansaon tbe saintly Isaac
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Wiatte in aft/^ timif* frmrui uYsfM/rr fftr Kif/rf-. t\ia,n thirty y^aatw, ib« ('r>m,t/m of Anglifavra; istrid >fot Ii-f;r<dj>.h, t.h/f:gr«iiri/l-<k/ij(br>^of Crom- w^jII, in whom, it i« >iaifl, rri^ny of th/r l^j/^iily ar»/i rr»/rf)tAl Ce&tiir*:* of
at tira^^ t/i throw tf«/:ir jthi^;Ui ov<rr ikif-. hh^ «it Owfm in tboiw? cbao^ffi^' fiil and jft/^rrny yeare, An4 th^rr*? w^^ otti/rr p^rreon* nwyr<f: pow^rftil t^til) — xif-h jw* th^: Plarl of OiT'frry, th^; P^rl of Ar»gl/flt*f:«», Fxyrd hf^k\fij, \jitA VVilloughhy, I>/rd W '^lArt/zn, and Sir John Ttt^yar, (mh of tb^; \,nwi\\ffiX w/xi^jsmt^ of «tat^; wF«o, tt^u>ugii nM rn<r:irJia?K of Owifm'« church, w^rrif; r^.-ligioiiisly dhqtofihd, a.nd Ow^;n'* frifixuh, an/l iriiclift^, m (h>r m tUfilr inHu<rncft w^^nt, t/> rnit.igat^; th/j »rv*?riti/* again** thi^ iionf:fm(fma'ixtii gf^n^rally/
Ow^n'« intinm/ry with thf*^; nohl/?m*m prohaWy ar:«otint« for tFiat int/;rvif;w t<^> wiilch h^ wa« iny'vt^i by tl^i*; King arid th^ Dukfe of York, and wlii/;h h *« ^J^*:tl fi=*ithf»iUy chroniicUrd i/y all hi* bi/>- graphr^rnt Haf/f^^^ning to i^; at Tanbridg^r W^rlk wh/en bi« maj^sMty anrl the duke were abo th^e, he wa« intro<iuc»&d to th/e royal t«»t. The king fi-eely c^'/n verji^d with hirn on the fctjl^gect of r liberty, and ezpr<:**/^i lii>. W!>.b to «ee the l>i**^;nteTK thWfiVhf. dm,Yni}tvm, On hi« return to Lftudfrn, he imriu-A Owen to repeats mtfirvmwH, uttering the wirne sentiment* a« he; ha/1 doner during tfie first conversation, and at length ihtr»j«ted hirn with a thoiifsand guineas, t/^ be employed by hirn in r :/ the mffifrring^ of hi*
floorer brethren. Tiie general f'oli/ry o. .,.,...>« wiffietently ac/y/finfi{ f^>r these gleams of royal mtrmWine.
But the importance of tho«e \ '^ k not *een by n#. untsl
we IjAve marked the twe which '^ a^le of tliem in the; ca«.%
of hiu Mjflfering l^ethren. It i« well ktiown that when the Parlia- ment again assembled, it expreceed it« strong dij^>lea«iire at thie king's indulgence, ami never 06a«ed it» remonstrance* until ttie licences to p>Laice« of worship hja/1 l;een witMrawn, A di>«p<j«tion, it i« true, l^egan to «how itself to diKtinguiifh between the Prr/r>*rjaint Nonconformij<t« and tlie Bornanii«ri?, arjufl to point restriction more particularly against the latter; hut tbe a«t, whadi wa« profies«edly inten/lefl to Ijear againi$t i/t<?w wa« so chmialy constructed a« to be capable of reaching all who did not con&/rm, and Churchmen were not hlow in giving it thia direction. The Nonconformist* were ez- p'/sed anew to tlxe persecuting storm; informers? were goa/led by incTeaffed reward*; and among thoiusands of le«K illnxtrious saflEeTerR, Richard Baxter suflfered jov-fully the spoiling of his goods, and wa« condemne^l to what his ardent spirit did indeed feel bitterly, — a year of almost unbroken siknce.' Owen, howeva', appears to have been