In 1848 appeared his admirable "Life and Times of Oliver Goldsmith" (revised 1854). Continuing his researches into English history under the early Stuarts, he published in 1860 the "Arrest of the Five Members by Charles I: a Chapter of English History rewritten", and "The Debates on the Grand Remonstrance, with an Introductory Essay on English Freedom". These were followed by his "Sir John Eliot: a Biography" (1864), elaborated from one of his earlier studies for the "Lives of Eminent British Statesmen".