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joins Opposition.
His Character.
War becomes
unpopular. Peace with Holland. - Ruin of the
Cabal
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CHAPTER IV.
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Prorogation for Fourteen Months. - Temple's advice to
the King. A Parliament. Lord Russell moves an
Impeachment against Lord Danby. — Non-resisting
Test Bill. Motion for a Dissolution of Parliament.
-Fails of Success. Another long Prorogation.-
Motion on the Danger of Flanders.- Letter of Lady
Vaughan to Lord Russell. Address from the Com-
Angry Answer of the King. - Prorogation
mons.
of Mr. Sacheverel. Motion of Sir Gilbert Gerrard,
seconded by Lord Russell. Hesitation of the King.
- He concludes a Secret Treaty with France. -
General Peace
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CHAPTER VI.
Discoveries of Dalrymple. - Rouvigny's interviews with
Lord Russell
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CHAPTER VII.
Popish Plot. Coleman's Letters. Motion against
the Duke of York. - Impeachment of Lord Danby.
Prorogation and Dissolution of Parliament. —
Letter of Lord Russell
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CHAPTER VIII.
Meeting of Parliament.
Choice of a
Speaker. — Impeachment of Lord Danby. — He sur-
renders himself. - Quarrel between the Houses.-
Character of Danby's Administration. New Coun-
cil. - Lord Russell a Member of it. -Its Inefficacy.
- Limitations on a Popish Successor proposed by
the King.
Exclusion Bill.
Prorogation. Ha-
beas Corpus Act passed
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CHAPTER IX.
Insurrection in Scotland.
Parliament dissolved.
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Execution of Langhorne.—Trial of Sir G.Wakeman.
King's Illness. Return of the Duke of York.
Disgrace of Monmouth and Shaftesbury. Proro-
gation of Parliament. — Meal-Tub Plot.- Retire-
ment of Essex and Halifax. Their Characters.
Petitions for the Meeting of Parliament.- Abhorring
Addresses.-Whigs and Tories.- Character of the
Parties so called
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Lord Russell leaves the Council. Black Box.
Elec-
tion of Sheriffs. - Duke of York indicted as a Re-
cusant. He goes to Scotland. - Monmouth's Pro-
gress. Meeting of Parliament.-Violence against
those who had promoted the Abhorring Addresses.
Lord Russell seconds a Motion for bringing in the Ex-
clusion Bill. Reasons in favour of it. Debates in
the Commons.-The Bill passes through a Committee.
Message from the Crown.- Exclusion Bill passed
by the House of Commons, and carried up by Lord
Russell to the House of Lords. It is thrown out.
Observations on it by Mr. Fox
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CHAPTER XII.
Disappointment of the Commons.
Address to the
Throne. Trial of Lord Stafford. Doubts started
by the Sheriffs respecting his Execution. - Bill of
Association moved by Lord Cavendish. — The King
asks for Supplies. Answer of the Commons.
quiry into the Conduct of the Judges.- Impeachment
against Chief-Justice Scroggs. - Disputes between the
King and the House of Commons, on the Subject of
the Exclusion Bill. Prorogation and Dissolution.-
Elections
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CHAPTER XIII.
Parliament summoned to Oxford. - King's Speech.
Fitzharris's Plot.-Exclusion Bill. Dissolution.
King's Declaration. Answer of the Whigs.