Chapter XI

PROGRESS OF THE NATION FROM THE CIVIL WAR TO THE GREAT REVOLUTION.

Religion: Nonconformist Sects--Imprisonment of Bunyan--Fox
and the Society of Friends--The Punishment of James
Naylor--Expulsion of Roger Williams--Other Religious
Sects--Literature: Milton--His Works--Cowley--Butler--Dryden--Minor
Poets--Dramatists of the Restoration--Prose Writers: Milton and
Dryden--Hobbes--Clarendon--Baxter--Bunyan--Waiton--Evelyn and
Pepys--Founding of the Royal Society--Physical Science--Discoveries
of Napier, Newton and Flamsteed--Mathematicians and
Chemists--Harvey and Worcester--Painting, Sculpture, and
Engraving--Coinage--Music--Furniture--Costume--Manners and
Customs--State of London--Sports and Amusements--Country
Life--Travelling--The Clergy--Yeomen--Village Sports--Growth
of the Revenue and Commerce--Growing prosperity of the North
of England--The Navigation Act--Norwich and Bristol--Postal
Arrangements--Advantages Derived from the Industries of the
Foreign Refugees--The East India Company--Condition of the People:
Wages--The Poor Law--Efforts of Philanthropists 352