Then an address was made to the King by the Lords of the White Staves, to know when both Houses might wait upon his Majesty, to give him thanks for communicating unto them, the designs of Argyle, and to present their declaration upon the subject matter of his traiterous declaration.
The King’s answer was, that he would be waited upon at 5 of the clock in the afternoon in the banquetting house.
Then the house adjourned till Monday.
Both houses attended the King at the banquetting house at 5 of the clock on Saturday.
[This journal is all in the Bishop of Norwich’s (Dr. Lloyd) own hand.]”—MS. in the University Library, Cambridge.
No. XIV.—Vol. II., p. 139.
James, towards the close of the year 1687, contemplated the calling of a Parliament. There is a collection of papers in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, to which my attention has been directed by the learned and courteous librarian, the Rev. Mr. Coxe, containing interrogations, addressed to Justices of the Peace and others, as to whether persons were likely to be returned who would pledge themselves to vote for taking off the tests and penal laws respecting religion. The following extract from a letter by John Eston, dated Bedford, November 22, 1687, is very curious:—“My Lord,—Since your honour spake with me at Bedford I have conferred with the heads of the Dissenters, and particularly with Mr. Margetts and Mr. Bunyon, whom your Lordship named to me. The first of these was Judge Advocate in the Army under the Lord General Monk, when the late King was restored; the other is the pastor to the dissenting congregation in this town. I find them all to be unanimous for electing only such members of Parliament as will certainly vote for repealing all the tests and penal laws touching religion, and they hope to steer all their friends and followers accordingly; so that if the Lord Lieutenant will cordially assist with his influence over the Church party, there cannot be in human reason any doubt of our electing two such members.” Again, December 6, 1687, the same writer says:—“The Dissenters are firm for us, but the Churchmen are implacable against us.”—MSS., Vol. I., Penal Laws of Test.
INDEX.
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- Abney, i. [431]
- Acts, Indemnity and Oblivion, i. [126]
- Uniformity, [187], [229], [245–255]
- Effects of the Act, [261], [270]
- Conventicle, [322–327], [388]
- Five Mile, [345–354]
- Test, [425–428]
- For better observance of Lord’s Day, [465]
- For Improvement of Small Livings, [467]
- Adams, Alderman, i. [148]
- Adda, D’, Papal Nuncio, ii. [109], [129], [132]
- Albemarle, Duke of, see [Monk]
- Alleine, Joseph, i. [264]
- His Writings, ii. [443]
- His spiritual life, [494–497]
- Allybone, one of the Judges at the Bishops’ Trial, ii. [153], [155]
- Alsop, Vincent, ii. [122]
- Ambrose, Isaac, ii. [444]
- Andrewes, Bishop, i. [219]; ii. [259], [328], [406]
- Angier, John, i. [291], [484]; ii. [218]
- Anglesea, Earl of, i. [114]
- Annesley, Dr., i. [363], [394]; ii. [57], [496]
- Ann Hyde, Duchess of York, i. [452]
- Argyle, Earl of, his Trial and Execution, ii. [97]
- Arlington, Lord, see [Sir Henry Bennet]
- Arminianism, ii. [397], [406–413]
- Army, Discontent of, i. [22], [42]
- Petitions, [23], [25]
- Violence against Richard, [24]
- Difficulty in managing it, [67]
- Meets the King at Blackheath, [76]
- Disbanding of Old Army, [86]
- Its Religious Character, [88]
- Ash, i. [100], [101], [102]
- Ashby, i. [64]
- Ashenden, Thomas, ii. [204]
- Ashley, see [Sir A. A. Cooper]
- Ashurst, Sir Henry, ii. [95], [248]
- Atkins, Robert, i. [278]
- Atkins, Sir Robert, i. [379]
- Aubony, Lord, i. [51]
- Aubrey, i. [474]
- Axtell, i. [126]
- Aylesbury, Countess of, ii. [57]