A Life of Anthony Ashley Cooper - 1871 Author:William Dougal Christie Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER XIII. 1672-3. Short tenure of Chancellorship—Meeting of Parliament, February 21 —Chancellor's writs issued during prorogation immediately disputed ... more »—The King's and Shaftesbury's speeches on opening Parliament— Official character of Shaftesbury's speech—Absurd story of altercation with the Duke of York—Elections on the Chancellor's writs declared void—Shaftesbury's issuing of the writs supported by precedents and late practice—Letter to Mr. Williams on Chester election—Supply promised—The Commons condemn Declaration of Indulgence—King appeals to the Lords—Address of both Houses against growth of Popery—The King cancels the Declaration— Advice to appeal to the Lords probably given by Shaftesbury— Memorandum of reasons for appeal to the Lords—Arlington the first frightened—Louis XIV. advised Charles to abandon the Declaration —The French Ambassador's joy at the abandonment—The Test Act —Shaftesbury's strong support of it—Arlington suspected of favouring it, and of secretly telling Shaftesbury of the King's engagements about Roman Catholic religion—Clifford's vehement opposition to Test Act—Bishop Burnet's mistakes—Supply granted and the House of Commons pleased—Adjournment of Parliament from March 29 to October 20, 1673—The Duke of York's and Clifford's resignations—Osborne succeeds Clifford—The Blackheath army—Duke of York's marriage with Princess Mary of Modeua—Parliament meets October 20 and is prorogued till the 27th—Shaftcsbury's official speech on opening Parliament, October 29—Parliament suddenly prorogued, November 4—Shaftesbury's dismissal from Chancellorship—Colbert's account of it—Shaftesbury's opposition to grants to Duchesses of Cleveland and Portsmouth—Shaftesbury'a character as a Judge—Roger North and Lord Campbell—Shaftesbury granted injunction nisi of su...« less