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[e]The persons named were the archbishop of Canterbury, Sancroft; the bishop of
Durham, Crew; of Rochester, Sprat; the earl of Rochester, Sunderland, chancellor Jefferies, and lord chief justice Herbert. The archbishop refused to act, and the bishop of Chester was substituted in his place.
[f]The elections in some places, particularly in York, were transferred from the people
to the magistrates, who, by the new charter, were all named by the crown. Sir John Reresby’s memoirs, p. 272. This was in reality nothing different from the king’s naming the members. The same act of authority had been employed in all the burroughs of Scotland.
[g]When Charles dissolved his last parliament, he set forth a declaration giving his
reasons for that measure, and this declaration the clergy had been ordered to read to the people after divine service. These orders were agreeable to their party prejudices, and they willingly submitted to them. The contrary was now the case.
[h]The words of the petition were: That the great averseness found in themselves to
their distributing and publishing in all their churches your majesty’s late declaration for liberty of conscience, proceeds neither from any want of duty and obedience to your majesty (our holy mother, the church of England, being both in her principles and her constant practice unquestionably loyal, and having to her great honour been more than once publicly acknowledged to be so by your gracious majesty) nor yet from any want of tenderness to dissenters, in relation to whom we are willing to come to such a temper as shall be thought fit, when the matter shall be considered and settled in parliament and convocation. But among many other considerations, from PLL v6.0 (generated September, 2011)
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this especially, because that declaration is founded upon such a dispensing power as hath been often declared illegal in parliament, and particularly in the year 1662 and 1672, and in the beginning of your majesty’s reign, and is a matter of so great moment and consequence to the whole nation both in church and state, that your petitioners cannot in prudence, honour, or conscience so far make themselves parties to it as a distribution of it all over the nation and the solemn publication of it once and again, even in God’s house, and in the time of divine service, must amount to in common and reasonable construction.
[i]This story is taken notice of in a weekly paper, the Observator, published at that
very time, 23d of August, 1682: Party zeal is capable of swallowing the most incredible story; but it is surely singular, that the same calumny, when once baffled, should yet be renewed with such success.
[k]Burnet, vol. i. p. 712. D’Avaux, 15th of April, 1688.
[l]D’Avaux, 24th of July, 1681; 10th of June, 15th of October, 11th of November,
1688; vol. iv. p. 30.
[m]D’Avaux, 21st of January, 1687.
[o]D’Avaux, 14th and 24th of September, 8th and 15th of October, 1688.
[p]D’Avaux was always of that opinion. See his negotiations 6th and 20th May, 18th,
27th of September, 22d of November, 1688. On the whole, that opinion is the most probable.
[q]That there really was no new alliance formed betwixt France and England appears
both from Sunderland’s apology, and from D’Avaux’s negotiations, lately published: See vol. iv. p. 18. Eng. translation, 27th of September, 1687. 16th of March, 6th of May, 10th of August, 2d, 23d, and 24th of September, 5th, and 7th of October, 11th of November, 1688.
[r]His grandfather, the first duke of Ormond, had died this year, on the 21st of July.
[s]Such as Rapin Thoyras, Locke, Sidney, Hoadley, &c.
[t]Lord Clarendon’s speech to the parliament, Oct. 9, 1665.
[u]Ralph’s History, vol. i. p. 288. We learn from that lord’s Memoirs, p. 12. that the
receipts of the Exchequer, during six years, from 1673 to 1679, were about eight millions two hundred thousand pounds, or one million three hundred sixty-six thousand pounds a-year. See likewise, p. 169.
[w]Dalrymple’s Appendix, p. 142.
[x]Journals, 29th of December, 1630.
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[b]Journ. 20th of March, 1689.
[c]D’Estrades, 20th of October, 1666.
[e]Memoirs of English affairs, chiefly naval.
[f]Lives of the admirals, vol. ii. p. 476.
[g]Discourse on the public revenues, part ii. p. 29, 33, 36.
[k]Scobell, i. 44, 134. ii. 88, 230.
[l]The duke of Buckingham died on the 16th of April, 1688.
[m]Butler died in 1680, aged 68.
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