Category: History - British
Declaration of the King after the Dissolution -- Prosecutions of Eliot and others for Conduct in Parliament -- Of Chambers for refusing to pay Customs -- Commendable Behaviour of Judges in some Instances -- Means adopted to raise the Revenue -- Compositions for Knighthood -- F...
_Commonwealth_--_Abolition of the monarchy, and of the house of lords._--The death of Charles the First was pressed forward rather through personal hatred and superstition, than...
8. CHAPTER VIIIThe dissolution of a parliament was always to the prerogative what the dispersion of clouds is to the sun. As if in mockery of the transient obstruction, it shone forth as splen...
14. CHAPTER XI_Popular joy at the restoration._--It is universally acknowledged that no measure was ever more national, or has ever produced more testimonies of public approbation, than the r...
16. CHAPTER XIIThe period of Lord Danby's administration, from 1673 to 1678, was full of chicanery and dissimulation on the king's side, of increasing suspiciousness on that of the Commons. Fo...
9. CHAPTER IX_Character of the long parliament._--We are now arrived at that momentous period in our history, which no Englishman ever regards without interest, and few without prejudice; th...
11. PART IFactions that, while still under some restraint from the forms at least of constitutional law, excite our disgust by their selfishness or intemperance, are little likely to rede...
13. iii. 443) there were 47 republicans, from 100 to 140 neuters or[470] The numbers are differently, but, I suppose, erroneously stated in Thurloe, vii. 640. It is said, in a pamphlet of the time, that this clause was introduced to please the...
15. part iii. 21. This is very highly to the honour of that party whom hehad so much oppressed, if not betrayed. "It was a notable providence of God, he says, that this man, who had been the great instrument of state, and done almost all, and had dea...
17. x. 312, though the prisoner's handwriting to a letter was proved inthe usual way by persons who had seen him write, yet this letter was also shown to the jury, along with some of his acknowledged writing, for the purpose of their comparison. It...
6. CHAPTER XIPopular Joy at the Restoration -- Proceedings of the Convention Parliament -- Act of Indemnity -- Exclusion of the Regicides and others -- Discussions between the Houses on it -...
4. PART ISuccess of the King in the first Part of the War -- Efforts by the moderate Party for Peace -- Affair at Brentford -- Treaty of Oxford -- Impeachment of the Queen -- Waller's Pl...
7. CHAPTER XIIEarl of Danby's Administration -- Opposition in the Commons -- Frequently corrupt -- Character of Lord Danby -- Connection of the popular Party with France -- Its Motives on bot...
5. PART IIAbolition of the Monarchy -- and of the House of Lords -- Commonwealth -- Schemes of Cromwell -- His Conversations with Whitelock -- Unpopularity of the Parliament -- Their Fall...
1. CHAPTER VIIIDeclaration of the King after the Dissolution -- Prosecutions of Eliot and others for Conduct in Parliament -- Of Chambers for refusing to pay Customs -- Commendable Behaviour o...
2. CHAPTER IXCharacter of Long Parliament -- Its salutary Measures -- Triennial Bill -- Other beneficial Laws -- Observations -- Impeachment of Strafford -- Discussion of its Justice -- Act...
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