22nd. A solemn public Fast that God would prevent all Popish plots, avert his judgments, and give a blessing to the proceedings of parliament now assembled, and which struck at the succession of the Duke of York.
29th. The Viscount Stafford was beheaded on Tower-hill.
CHARACTER OF SHAFTESBURY (1681).
Source.—Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel.
... The false Achitophel[12] was ...
A name to all succeeding ages curst.
For close designs and crooked counsels fit,
Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit,
Restless, unfixed in principles and place,