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History of the Revolution in England in 1688, Comprising a View of the Reign of James Ii., Completed to the Settlement of the Crown, by the
History of the Revolution in England in 1688 Comprising a View of the Reign of James Ii Completed to the Settlement of the Crown by the Author:James Mackintosh Title: History of the Revolution in England in 1688, Comprising a View of the Reign of James Ii., Completed to the Settlement of the Crown, by the Editor. to Which Is Prefixed, a Notice of the Life, Writings and Speeches of Sir J. Mackintosh General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1834 Original Publisher: s.n. Notes: ... more »This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER VIL !l Aiiilii publicly received as the Nuncio. -- Dissolution of Parliament. -- Final Breach. -- Preparations for a new Parliament. -- New Charters. -- Removal of Lord Lieutenants. -- Patronage of the Crown. -- Moderate Views of Sunderland. -- House of Lords. -- Royal Progress. -- Pregnancy of the Queen. -- London has the Appearance of a Catholic City, j The war between the religious parties had not yet so far subsided as to allow the avowed intercourse of princes of the Protestant communions . with the see of Rome. In the first violence of hostility, indeed, laws were passed in England forbidding, under pain of death, the indispensable correspondence of Catholics with the head of the church, and even the bare residence of Catholic priests within the realm. These laws, which never could be palliated except as measures of retaliation in a warfare of extermination, had been often executed without necessity and with slight provocation. It was most desirable to prevent their execution and to procure their repeal. Rut the object of the King in his embassy to Rome was to select these odious enactments, as the most specious case, in which he might set an example of the ostentatious contempt with which he was resolved to trample on every law which stood in the way of his designs. A nearer and more signal instance than the embassy to Rome ...« less