THE DUKE OF YORK QUITS THE KINGDOM - DANBY PARDONED BY THE KING, BUT IMPRISONED-NEW COUNCIL DEBATE ON THE BILL OF EXCLU- SION PROROGATION -EXECUTION OF MITCHELL IN SCOTLAND MURDER OF ARCHBISHOP SHARP VICTORY AND DEFEAT OF THE COVENANTERS TRIAL AND EXECUTION OF FIVE JESUITS-OF LANGHORNE-ACQUITTAL OF WAKEMAN - DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT — PETITIONERS AND ABHORRERS -BILL OF EXCLUSION LOST IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS-TRIAL AND EXECU- HISTORY OF ENGLAN D. CHAPTER I. CHARLES II. THE NEW COUNCIL-PROCEEDINGS IN THE CONVENTION PARLIAMENT I. NEVER, perhaps, did any event in the history of this CHAP. nation produce such general and exuberant joy as the A.D. 1660 return of Charles to take possession of the throne of his fathers. To the abolition of monarchy men attributed all the evils which they had suffered; from its restoration they predicted the revival of peace and prosperity. The known enemies of the royal cause slunk away to hide themselves from the effects of popular excitation; its triumph was everywhere celebrated with the usual manifestations of public joy; and the arms of the commonwealth, with all the emblems of republicanism, were subjected to the foulest indignities, and reduced to ashes. To keep |