Change in the Establishment made by the Act 246 Convocation responsible for Changes in the Prayer Book 247 Bishops' share in Responsibility 248 House of Commons 250 Clarendon 250 Roman Catholic Party 251 Omissions in Act 253 Classes affected by it 255 CHAPTER XII. Sir Henry Vane 256 Edmund Ludlow 258 Edward Whalley and Major-General Gough 259 Effects of the Act of Uniformity 261 Reports of Disaffection 267 CHAPTER XIII. Bartholomew Ejectment--Farewell Sermons 271 Reception of Catherine of Braganza 275 Petitions from Quakers 275 St. Bartholomew's Day 278 The Ejected Ministers 278 CHAPTER XIV. Petition from Presbyterians 283 Operation of the Act 285 Clergy who conformed 287 Bishops' Articles of Visitation 289 Ministers who continued in the Establishment without conforming 290 Clergy who disapproved of the Ejectment 291 Rumoured Plots 292 CHAPTER XV. King's Declaration of Indulgence 296 Baxter and the Independents 298 Parliament 299 Debate on Indulgence 300 Papists and Nonconformists 303 Deaths of Bishops 305 Proscribed Worship 308 Colonial Policy 310 Plots and Informers 312 Nonconformist Places of Worship 314 Ejected Ministers 316 CHAPTER XVI. Conventicle Act 322