Excerpt from A Life of Anthony Ashley Cooper, Vol. 2 of 2: First Earl of Shaftesbury 1667-1683 Meeting of the new Parliament, March 6, 1679 - King refuses approval of Seymour as Speaker - After prorogation for two days the Commons and King agree on Serjeant Gregory - Resolution of both Houses affirming a horrid and treasonable plot and conspiracy - King grants Danby a pardon - Commons demand justice against Danby and his immediate committal - Danby's flight and subsequent surrender and committal Bill of attainder against ...
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Excerpt from A Life of Anthony Ashley Cooper, Vol. 2 of 2: First Earl of Shaftesbury 1667-1683 Meeting of the new Parliament, March 6, 1679 - King refuses approval of Seymour as Speaker - After prorogation for two days the Commons and King agree on Serjeant Gregory - Resolution of both Houses affirming a horrid and treasonable plot and conspiracy - King grants Danby a pardon - Commons demand justice against Danby and his immediate committal - Danby's flight and subsequent surrender and committal Bill of attainder against Danby - The Lords unsuccessfully endeavour to substitute banishment for attainder - Shaftesbury and the leaders of Opposition in the Lords support the lesser punishment - King wishes to conciliate the Opposition - Shaftesbury's speech on the state of the nation, March 25 - Lord Ossory's intemperate attack - The Privy Council reconstituted and reduced in number - Shaftesbury President of the Council - New plan of Government - Temple's part in bringing about this change probably exaggerated - Barillon's despatches Shaftesbury's declaration of unchanged Opinions - Openly advocates Monmouth as successor to the throne - Sunday debate in Commons on securing Protestant religion-resolution against Duke of York - The King proposes expedients - A second Sunday debate, May 11, 1679, when Commons resolve on a bill for excluding the Duke of York from the succession - Bill read second time May 2l - Sudden prorogation, May 26, without consulting Privy Council - Passing of Habeas Corpus Act - Letter from Duke of Ormond - Sunderland's scheme for bringing Prince of Orange over to England for meeting of Parliament in October - Dissolution of Parliament July 12 - New Parliament called for Octo bee - King's illness - Duke of York comes to England - Required to return to Brussels on the King's recovery - Monmouth ordered out of England and his office of Lord General taken from him - Prince of Orange's views - Negotiations with Louis for a money treaty - Duke of York returns to England to go to reside in Scotland Parliament pro rogued till January 26, 1680 - Shaftesbury dismissed from President ship of Council - Meal-tub Plot - Shaftesbury's belief in attempts to assassinate him - Faria's information - Letter to Shaftesbury from his chaplain-essex leaves the Treasury - Offers of First Commissionership of Treasury to Shaftesbury - He refuses - Sunderland, Hyde, and Godolphin now leading Ministers - The Obits - Monmouth suddenly returns to England without leave and disobeys the King's order to quit - Petitions for meeting of Parliament - Proclamation to prorogue till N ovember - Proclamation against tumultuous petitioning-peti tioners and Abhorrers - King declares, on January 28, his intention to. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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