Cromwell's Foreign Policy 503 Treatment of the Jews 504 CHAPTER XVIII. Cromwell at Hampton Court 508 His Last Interview with Fox 510 His Last Days 511 His Last Words 517 His Death 520 APPENDIX. I. Letters respecting the Trial of Strafford 524 II. Plan of Church Reform 526 III. Articles of the Church of England, with the alterations made by the Assembly 528 IV. Solemn League and Covenant 535 V. Minutes of the Westminster Assembly 538 VI. Number of the Ejected Clergy 539 VII. Draft of a Bill for Revising the English Translation of the Scriptures 543 VIII. Extract from the Records of the Church at Bury St. Edmund's 545 IX. Note on Ritualism 547 [Illustration] CHAPTER I. All ecclesiastical power in England having been long before snatched from royal hands, the death of Charles I. produced no effect upon the condition of the Church. The control of its political destinies had from the year 1641 rested with the House of Commons; and with the remnant of that assembly the control continued, when the kingdom became a Commonwealth in name as well as in fact. [Sidenote: 1649, February.]