The spirit of dissent seemed to be extinct.

Baxter from his pulpit pronounced an eulogium on the Bishops and parochial clergy.

The Dutch minister, a few hours later, wrote to inform the States General that the Anglican priesthood had risen in the estimation of the public to an incredible degree.

The universal cry of the Nonconformists, he said, was that they would rather continue to lie under the penal statutes than separate their cause from that of the prelates.

[369] Another week of anxiety and agitation passed away.