Charles I.'s death, 64;
first collected edition of works, verse and prose, produced by
subscription in three volumes, 64;
became Milton's assistant (1657), 68;
friendship with Milton, 69;
takes Milton's place in receptions 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