Schemes of the cabal. Remonftrances of Sir William Temple- Campaign of 1674.A parliameni. Paffive obedience.- A parliament.Campaign of 1675.- Congrefs of Nimeguen. Campaign of 1676. Uncertain conduct of the king.--A parliament. -Campaign of 1677-Parliament's diftruft of the king- Marriage of the prince of Orange with the lady Mary.Plan of peace.--Negotiations. The popifb plot.- Oates's narrative-And character. Coleman's letters.Godfrey's murder.-Gene- ral confternation. The parliament.-Zeal of the parliament. -Bedloe's narrative. Accufation of Danby. His impeachment. Diffolution of the long parliament.- -Its character.- -Trial of Coleman.- Of Ireland. New elections.Duke of Monmouth. -Duke of York retires to Bruffels. New parlia ment. Danby's impeachment. -Popish plot. Now council. -Limitations on a popish fucceffor. Bill of exclufion- -Habeas corpus bill. -Prorogation and diffolution of the parliament. -Trial and execution of the five jefuits. And of Langborne.--Wakeman State of parties.State of the miniftry. plot.Whig and Tory.- A new parliament. Violence of the Commons. Exclufion-bill. ments for and against the Exclufion.Exclufion-bill re- jected. -Trial of Stafford. His execution. Violence of the commons.—— -Diffolution of the parlia- CHA P. LXX. State of affairs in Ireland.Shaftesbury acquitted. Argyle's trial. State of affairs in Scotland.State of the miniftry in England.—New nomination of sheriffs. -Quo warrantos.- Great power of the crown.A confpiracy.Shaftesbury retires and dies.-Rye boufe plot: Confpiracy difcovered.Execution of the confpirators. Trial of lord Ruffel.cution.--Trial of Algernon Sidney. -His exe His execution. -State of the nation.-State of foreign affairs.King's fickness and death,——and character. Page 128 JAME S II. CHAP. LXXI. King's firft tranfactions.--A parliament. Arguments defeat, -and of Fef-Argyle's in for and against a revenue for life.- -Oates convicted of perjury. -Monmouth's invafion.His and execution.- -Cruelties of Kirke, feries.--State of affairs in Scotland. vafion, defeat, -and execution.- -A parliament. French perfecutions.--The difpenfing power. State of Ireland.--Breach betwixt the king and the church.--Court of ecclefiaftical commiffion.-Sentence against the bishop of London.-Sufpenfion of the penal laws.--State of Ireland.--Embassy to Rome. Attempt upon Magdalen College.---Imprisonment, --trial, and acquittal of the bishops.--Birth of the prince of Wales. -- 171 CHAP. LXXII. Conduct of the prince of Orange. He forms a league against France,--refufes to concur with the king, refolves to oppofe the king.Is applied to by the Englib.-Coalition of parties.--Prince's preparations. -Offers of France to the king,rejected. Suppofed league with France.-General difcontents. The king retracts his measures.--Prince's declaration. The prince lands in England.-General commotion. -Defertion of the army,—and of prince George,--and of the princess Anne. -King's confernation, and flight. -General confufion.King feized at Feverfham.--Second efcape.--King's character.Convention fummoned.Settlement of -English convention meets.- -Views of the parties. Free conference between the houses.mons prevail.and fciences. Scotland. -Com -Settlement of the crown. -Manners 219 THE HISTORY O F GREAT BRITAIN. CHA P. LXVII. Schemes of the cabal. Remonftrances of Sir William Temple: Campaign of 1674 ·A parliamen... Paffive obedience. A parliament.Campaign of 1675. -Congrefs of Nimeguen. Campaign of 1676. Uncertain conduct of the king.A parliament. -Campaign of 1677. Parliament's diftruft of the king--Marriage of the prince of Orange with the lady Mary.- Plan of peace.--Negotiations. Campaign of 1678.- Negotiations.- -Peace of NiState of affairs in Scotland. meguen. Cabal F we confider the projects of the famous Cabal, it will CHA P. be hard to determine, whether the end, which thofe LXVII. minifters propofed, was more blameable and pernicious, or the means, by which they were to effect it, more im- 1674. Schemes politic and imprudent. Though they might talk only of recovering or fixing the king's authority; their intention of the could be no other than that of making him absolute: Since it was not poffible to regain or maintain, in oppofition to the people, any of those powers of the crown, abolished by late law or cuftom, without fubduing the people, and rendering the royal prerogative entirely uncontroulable. Against such a scheme, they might foresee, that every party of the nation would declare themselves, not only the old parliamentary faction, which, though they kept not in a body, were ftill very numerous; but even the greatest royalifts, who were indeed attached to monarchy, but defired to fee it limited and reftrained by VOL. VIII. B law. |