CHAPTER XXXIX

DANBY'S ADMINISTRATION AND THE THREE SHORT PARLIAMENTS. 1675-1681

1. Growing Influence of Danby. 1675 610

2. Parliamentary Parties. 1675 610

3. The Non-Resistance Bill. 1675 611

4. Charles a Pensionary of France. 1675-1676 611

5. Two Foreign Policies. 1677 612

6. The Marriage of the Prince of Orange. 1677 613

7. Danby's Position. 1677 613

8. The Peace of Nymwegen. 1678 614

9. The Popish Plot. 1678 615

10. Growing Excitement. 1678 615

11. Danby's Impeachment and the Dissolution of the Cavalier Parliament. 1678-1679 616

12. The Meeting of the First Short Parliament. 1679 616

13. The Exclusion Bill and the Habeas Corpus Act. 1679 617

14. Shaftesbury and the King. 1679 617

15. Shaftesbury and Halifax. 1679 618

16. The Divine Right of Kings. 1679 619

17. The Highland Host. 1677-1678 619

18. Drumclog and Bothwell Bridge. 1679 619

19. Petitioners and Abhorrers. 1680 620

20. The Second Short Parliament. 1680-1681 620

21. The Third Short Parliament. 1681 621