This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ...of four University representatives by James I. and the restoration to nine boroughs of the right to send members, and partly by the addition, in 1672, of representatives from the County and City of Durham. The royal right to create fresh boroughs by charter was exercised for the last time in 1677, when Charles gave ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ...of four University representatives by James I. and the restoration to nine boroughs of the right to send members, and partly by the addition, in 1672, of representatives from the County and City of Durham. The royal right to create fresh boroughs by charter was exercised for the last time in 1677, when Charles gave Newark two members. The matter was discussed in Parliament, and though never formally taken away, the right was never again exercised. No fresh boroughs were enfranchised till the Reform Act of 1832. The two other special points of interest in the reign Ministerial are the growth of the idea of ministerial responsibility and yDS1" of the party system. For the first seven years of the reign Clarendon was chief minister, and the responsibility for the Clarendon, sale of Dunkirk, the ill success of the Dutch War, and other misfortunes of the time, were laid at his door by the country, while his austere manners made him unpopular with the young bloods at Court. Charles was therefore not unwilling to sacrifice his minister as soon as Parliament turned against him, and when the House of Commons threatened him with impeachment he fled, and remained an exile till his death at Rouen in 1674. His last years were worthily spent in the compiling of his great History of the Rebellion. The Cabal Though the Privy Council was the constitutional adviser 1668-1673 o ne crown, there had been a tendency for some time for successive kings to form an inner circle of advisers, and the nickname of "cabal" had sometimes been given to these groups. By a curious coincidence, the first letters of the names of the men who became the chief advisers of the king after the fall of Clarendon formed the word cabal,1 and hence this group has become known as the Cabal...
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