Lives of Eminent British Statesmen ...: Robert Cecil, earl of Salisbury; Thomas Osborne, earl of Danby and duke of Leeds. By T. P. CourtnayLongman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, 1838 - Statesmen |
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... Temple sent to Holland - 212 Danby pays part of the Bankers ' Debt - 212 Danby unacquainted with the King's Transactions with France Buckingham dismissed ; Arlington remains Discussions concerning a General Peace ; Danby and Sir William ...
... Temple sent to Holland - 212 Danby pays part of the Bankers ' Debt - 212 Danby unacquainted with the King's Transactions with France Buckingham dismissed ; Arlington remains Discussions concerning a General Peace ; Danby and Sir William ...
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... Temple sent to Holland - 285 Parliament prorogued - 285 Temple's Treaty of July 26 . - 287 Lawrence Hyde again sent to Holland - 287 But the States make a separate Peace - 288 Popish Plot - 289 Seventeenth Session ( October 21. ) - 291 ...
... Temple sent to Holland - 285 Parliament prorogued - 285 Temple's Treaty of July 26 . - 287 Lawrence Hyde again sent to Holland - 287 But the States make a separate Peace - 288 Popish Plot - 289 Seventeenth Session ( October 21. ) - 291 ...
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... Temple , essential to diplomacy . According to the French ambassador , Cecil would not visit Aremberg , unless accompanied by lord Kinloss , a caution which Sully ascribes to his diffidence of his own position , and the fear of ...
... Temple , essential to diplomacy . According to the French ambassador , Cecil would not visit Aremberg , unless accompanied by lord Kinloss , a caution which Sully ascribes to his diffidence of his own position , and the fear of ...
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... Temple , i . 423 . + Some time before the Restoration , and probably soon after he came of age in 1652 , Osborne married Bridget , second daughter of Montagu Bertie , second earl of Lindsey , who had fought for Charles I. Parl . Hist ...
... Temple , i . 423 . + Some time before the Restoration , and probably soon after he came of age in 1652 , Osborne married Bridget , second daughter of Montagu Bertie , second earl of Lindsey , who had fought for Charles I. Parl . Hist ...
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... Temple , re- porting the opinions of the conversers at Brussels , in which apparently he concurred , represented ... Temple to Lord Arlington , Sept. 16. 1667 , in the Life of Temple , 1836 , i . 130 . French connection , a leaning ...
... Temple , re- porting the opinions of the conversers at Brussels , in which apparently he concurred , represented ... Temple to Lord Arlington , Sept. 16. 1667 , in the Life of Temple , 1836 , i . 130 . French connection , a leaning ...
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Page 327 - And whereas it hath been found by experience, that it is inconsistent with the safety and welfare of this Protestant kingdom, to be governed by a Popish prince...
Page 327 - That King James II., having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between king and people ; and by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws and having withdrawn himself out of the kingdom, has abdicated the government, and that the throne is thereby vacant.
Page 231 - I, AB, do declare, that it is not lawful, upon any pretence whatsoever, to take arms against the king : and that I do abhor that traitorous position of taking arms by his authority against his person, or against those that are commissioned by him...
Page 217 - His Father's foes he doth reward Preserving those that cut off 's Head : Old Cavaliers the Crown's best Guard, He lets them starve for want of Bread. Never was any King endow'd With so much Grace and Gratitude.
Page 205 - Majesty that penal statutes, in matters ecclesiastical, cannot be suspended but by act of Parliament.
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Page 327 - That king James the Second, having endeavoured to subvert the Constitution of the Kingdom, by breaking the original Contract between king and people, and, by the advice of Jesuits, and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental Laws, and having withdrawn himself out of the Kingdom, has abdicated the Government, and that the Throne is thereby become vacant.
Page 322 - Highness that your compliment upon the birth of the child (which not one in a thousand here believes to be the queen's) hath done you some injury, the false imposing of that upon the princess and the nation being not only an infinite exasperation of people's minds here, but being certainly one of the chief causes upon which the declaration of your entering the kingdom in a hostile manner must be founded on your part, although many other reasons are to be given on ours.
Page 358 - Ireland, and that neither the late King James, nor the pretended Prince of Wales, nor any other Person hath any Right whatsoever to the same...