at foreign embassies, 69;
  plays part of Laureate during Protector’s life, 71;
  produces two songs on marriage of Lady Mary Cromwell, 72-3;
  attends Cromwell’s funeral, 73;
  is keenly interested in public affairs, 75;
  becomes a civil servant for a year, 75;
  M.P. for Hull, 75;
  friend of Milton and Harrington, 76;
  well disposed towards Charles II., 77;
  remains in office till end of year (1659), 77;
  elected with Ramsden M.P. for Kingston-upon-Hull, 78;
  attended opening of Parliament (1659), 80;
  is not a “Rumper,” 84;
  again elected for Hull (1660), 84;
  begins his remarkable correspondence with the Corporation of Hull, 84;
  a satirist, not an enthusiast, 85;
  lines on Restoration, 90;
  complains to House of exaction of L150 for release of Milton, 91;
  elected for third, and last, time member for Hull, 95;
  receives fee from Corporation of Hull for attendance at House, 96;
  reviled by Parker for taking this payment, 96;
  Flagellum Parliamentum attributed to, 97;
  goes to Holland, 100;
  is recalled, 101;
  while in Holland writes to Trinity House and to the Corporation of Hull
    on business matters, 101;
  goes as secretary to Lord Carlisle on an embassy to Sweden and
    Denmark, 106;
  public entry into Moscow, 108;
  assists at formal reception of Lord Carlisle as English ambassador, 109;
  renders oration to Czar into Latin, 109;
  Russians object to terms of oration, 109;
  replies, 109-12;
  returns from embassy, 113;
  reaches London, 113;
  attends Parliament at Oxford, 116;
  The Last Instructions to a Painter about the Dutch Wars, 129-35;
  bitter enemy of Hyde, 136;
  lines upon Clarendon House, 138;
  inquires into “miscarriages of the late war,” 139;
  The Rehearsal Transprosed, 151;
  its great success, 152;
  literary method described by Parker, 162;
  called “a droll,” “a buffoon,” 163;
  replies to Parker, 163 seq.;
  intercedes, 168;
  abused by Parker in History of His Own Time, 170 n.;
  The Rehearsall Transpros’d (second part), 171-2;
  pictures Parker, 172 seq.;
  latterly fears subversion of Protestant faith, 179;
  his famous pamphlet, An Account of the Growth of Popery and Arbitrary
    Government in England, 180-1, 203-5, 206-8;
  gives account of quarrel with Dutch, 186-7;
  commendatory verses on “Mr. Milton’s Paradise Lost” (1674), 199 n.;
  mock speech, His Majesty’s Most Gracious Speech to Both Houses of
    Parliament, 200-2;
  story of proffered bribe, 209-10;
  last letter to constituents, 210;
  rarely speaks in the House of Commons, 211;
  longest reported speech, 211;
  speech reported in Parliamentary History (1677), 211;
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