Four years after his many educational couuselings had been written from Zurich, while the school-life of John was still in progress, the English mission to Switzerland was terminated, the minister was couunended, called home, and informed on his arrival that the Lord Protector was dying. Very soon the whole country was convulsed ; but, despite the agitations of that disastrous period, the youthful heir of a trans- Atlantic 'Lordship,' fifteen years of age at the time of his father's return, was exceptionally favored as to his opiiortunities for receiving the best possible training under the eye of his watchful parents, who had already taken rank with the best educators of England.

"Fortunately for the professor, while occupying so effectively his chair at Breda, he found it within bis power to confer personal favoraupon the exiled King, Charles II, then sojourning there. These were gratefully remembered, and opened the way, soon after the restoration, for his being admitted into ' holy orders,' by the Bishop of London, in IfiBl, for his being honored with the degree of doctor of divinity, gifted by the crown with the rectory of Fobbing, in Essex, and afterward by the Bishop, with that of Ijavingdon, in the sanui county; all showing that the changeiff government from commonwealth to kingdom, brought to him no great distress, nor interfered with the educational interests of his family. The scholar, the diplomatist, the statesman, who had been recognized throughout Europe as the representative of the Lord Protector in defence of the peojiles oppressed for conscience sake, was eminently (pmlified, of course, to tniin his only sou into sympathy with his ow n ideas and the martyr spirit of the exiles who were to seek tran.'^atlantic homes within his own lordly domain.