1660. The system of military tenures abolished by parliament, and an excise tax on beer and other liquors imposed in its stead. Ten of the regicides executed. The Convention Parliament dissolved. 1661. A new parliament, sometimes called the =Pension Parliament=, met, and sat for seventeen years. _Corporation Act_ passed. Savoy Conference, between some of the bishops and leading presbyterian divines. 1662. _Act of Uniformity_ passed. Iniquitous execution of Sir Harry Vane. Dunkirk sold to the French. 1664. _Conventicle Act_ passed. Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam (now New York) surrendered to the English. 1665. =War with the Dutch.= The English gained a great victory over them off LOWESTOFT (June 3). The =Great Plague= raged in London, and carried off more than 100,000 victims. _Five Mile Act_ passed. The Corporation Act, the Act of Uniformity, the Conventicle Act, and the Five Mile Act are called the Clarendon Code. The Corporation Act required all persons holding offices in municipal corporations to take the sacrament of the Lord's Supper according to the rites of the Church of England--to renounce the Solemn League and Covenant--and to swear that they believed it unlawful to take up arms, upon any pretence whatsoever, against the king. The Act of Uniformity required all clergymen to declare their assent to everything contained in the Prayer Book, and all schoolmasters were obliged to have a licence from the bishop. About 2,000 clergymen declined to subscribe, and were ejected from their livings: and, receiving no compensation from the state, were, in many cases, reduced to the utmost poverty. The Conventicle Act declared all meetings of more than five persons, except the household, for religious worship not according to the Prayer Book, seditious; and all persons above sixteen years old, who attended, for a first offence were to be fined or imprisoned for three months; for a second, fined or imprisoned for six months; and for a third, transported for seven years. The Five Mile Act required all dissenting ministers to take an oath similar to that imposed by the Corporation Act, and, in case of refusal, they were not to approach within five miles of any borough or place where they had ever preached, nor to act as schoolmasters, under a penalty of £40 and six months' imprisonment. 1666. Louis XIV. of France joined the Dutch against England. The Dutch defeated the English off the NORTH FORELAND (June 1-4), but were afterwards vanquished in the same neighbourhood (July 25). =Great Fire of London=: the loss caused by the fire estimated at more than £7,000,000. Some of the presbyterians rose in Scotland, and were defeated on the PENTLAND HILLS (Nov. 28).