[655] State Papers, Dom. Charles II., 1676, Oct. 27.
[656] Glanvill's Zealous and Impartial Protestant, p. 46. This and other instances of exaggeration are given in The Happy Future State of England, p. 140. It should be stated that the author of this last work endeavours to make out the Roman Catholics to have been as few as possible. The population of England, and the relative proportion of different classes of religionists, will be noticed in a subsequent chapter.
[657] "The debate or arguments for dissolving this present Parliament," 1675. Written by the Earl of Shaftesbury. Parl. Hist., IV. lxxviii.
[658] Campbell's Lives, iv. 185.
[659] Parl. Hist., iv. 801.
[660] Life of James II., i. 505. Parl. Hist., iv. 814, 824.
[661] State Papers, April, 1677.
[662] Lingard, xii. 96, 97. The Resolutions on which these Bills were founded are contained in the Lords' Journals, 1677, February 21 & 22.
[663] March 20, Parl. Hist., iv. 853–7. The same History (iv. 858) takes notice on the 29th of March of Marvell's boxing Sir Philip Harcourt's ear for stumbling on his foot.
[664] Parl. Hist. iv. 862. Journals, 1677, April 4.