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RESTORATION OF CHARLES II.
in each for a resident preaching minister.^ It was a
far-sighted and admirable scheme, projected though
it were by men who had httle affection for the Church
of England, in our sense of the term, and was a remarkable
foreshadowing of a plan which has been
carried out in our own day, notably in Leeds, and in
other wide and extensive parishes in different parts of
England.
In 1660 the restoration of Charles II. to the throne
of Great Britain took place, and was followed by the
restoration of the Church of England to her rights
and privileges. The bishops were reinstated in their
sees, and those which had become vacant by the
deaths of their occupants were filled up without delay.
Archbishop Williams, as has already been mentioned,
died in 1650. The Northern primacy was bestowed
by the king upon Accepted Frewen, Bishop of
Coventry and Lichfield. He was elected Archbishop
of York on the 22nd September, 1660, and enthroned
on the nth of the following month.
The Presbyterian party were much discontented at
the prospect of the Book of Common-prayer being
again recognised as the form which was to guide the
public worship of the people of England, and made
many complaints to the king upon the subject. They
alleged the burden that a set form of prayer imposed
upon tender consciences, and though they admitted
that a Liturgy, if consonant to the Word of God,
might lawfully be used, it ought not to be enforced
with over much rigour, but that the minister might
Whitaker's " Loidis and Elmete," pp. 34, 35.