Author : John Lingard
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 23,73 MB
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781528163989
Book Description
Excerpt from The History of England, Vol. 8: From the First Invasion by the Romans; To the Revolution in 1688 This selection of Oxford disconcerted, perhaps alarmed, the popular leaders. It would deprive them a0i). 1681. Of the powerful aid which they derived from the agency of several clubs, and of a numerous faction in the city, and would remove them to a place where they hardly possessed a single partisan, and where the fidelity of their followers might be shaken by the offers of the court, or subdued by the presence of the military. Pamphlets in condemnation of the measure issued from the press the aid of supernatural apparitions was em ployed;1 and a petition to the king, remarkable for Jan. 25. The boldness of its language, was subscribed by sixteen peers, and presented by Lord Essex. It attributed the choice of Oxford to the counsels of wicked men, favourers of popery, promoters of French interests, and enemies to the happiness of England; it stated that in such a place the two houses would be deprived of free dom of debate, and exposed to the swords of the papists, who had crept into the ranks of the king's guards; and it therefore prayed and advised that the parliament might be held at the accustomed place in the city of Westminster. Charles instantly replied, That, my lord, may be your opinion; it is not mine: and soon afterwards sent the secretary to demand the names of the Catholics who served among his guards. Essex was not prepared to answer that question: he. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.