[Footnote 1:  Orme’s Life of Owen (1820), p. 113.]

[Footnote 2:  Life of Cudworth, as cited by Godwin, IV. 596.]

All that could be expected by divines and scholars ranking in our second category, i.e. as subjects of the Protectorate by mere compulsion, and known to be strongly disaffected to it, was protection and safety on condition of remaining quiet.  This they did receive.  For a month or two, indeed, after the terrible ordinance of Nov. 24, 1655, threatening the expulsion of the ejected Anglican clergy from the family-chaplaincies, schoolmasterships, and tutorships, in which so many of them had found refuge, and forbidding them to preach anywhere or use the Book of Common Prayer, there had been a flutter of consternation among the poor dispersed clerics.  That Ordinance, however, as we saw, had merely been in terrorem at a particular moment, and had remained a dead letter.  The admirable John Hales, it is true, did resign a chaplaincy which he held near Eton rather than bring the good lady who sheltered him into trouble; and by his death soon afterwards England lost a man of whom the Protector must have had as kindly thoughts as of any of the old Anglicans.  That case was exceptional.  Ex-Bishop Hall, in the end of his much-battered life, lived quietly near Norwich, remembering his past losses and sequestrations under the Long Parliament rather than suffering anything more of the kind.  Peter Heylin was in similar circumstances in Oxfordshire, and by no means bashful.  Jeremy Taylor alternated between the Earl of Carbery’s seat, called “the Golden Grove,” in Caernarvonshire, near which he taught a school, and the society of his friend John Evelyn, in London or at Sayes Court in Surrey,—­tending on the whole to London, where he resumed preaching, and, after a brief arrest and some little questioning, was left unmolested.  Hammond was mainly at Sir John Packington’s in Worcestershire; Sanderson and Fuller were actually in parochial livings, the one in Lincolnshire, the other in Essex; and Pocock was in a Professorship.  Sorely vexed as such men were, and poorer in the world’s goods than they had been, this was the time of the greatest literary productiveness of some of them.  Old Bishop Hall had not ceased to write, but was to leave trifles of his last days to be published after the Restoration as “Shakings of the Olive Tree”; and works, or tracts and sermons, by Sanderson, Heylin, Hammond, Fuller, and Jeremy Taylor, some of them of a highly Episcopal tenor, were among the publications of the Protectorate.  Fuller’s Church History of Britain, one of the best and most lightsome books in our language, was published in 1655-6.  Brian Walton’s great Polyglott had not yet been carried farther than the third volume; but the Protector had continued to that scholar the material furtherance in his arduous work which had been yielded first by the Rump Government, apparently on some solicitation by Milton (Vol.  IV. pp. 446, 447); and the work,