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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-

TION OF VISCOUNT STAFFORD.

THE

HISTORY OF ENGLAND

VOL. IX

HISTORY

OF

ENGLAN D.

CHAPTER I.

CHARLES II.

THE NEW COUNCIL-PROCEEDINGS IN THE CONVENTION PARLIAMENT
-TRIALS AND EXECUTION OF THE REGICIDES - ECCLESIASTICAL
ARRANGEMENTS CONFERENCE AT THE SAVOY-RISING OF THE
FIFTH-MONARCHY MEN-NEW PARLIAMENT-EXECUTION OF VANE
-CORPORATION ACT-ACT OF UNIFORMITY-PARLIAMENT IN SCOT-
LAND-EXECUTION OF ARGYLE-RESTORATION OF EPISCOPACY IN
SCOTLAND-ALSO IN IRELAND-ACT OF SETTLEMENT—AND EXPLA-
NATORY ACT FOR IRELAND.

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