Constitutional Progress. Seven Lectures Delivered Before the University of Oxford
Constitutional Progress. Seven Lectures Delivered Before the University of Oxford
Burrows, Montagu, 1819-1905
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t Lingard, vol. ix. c. 4. Burnet, folio, p. 248. Digitized by Google Lect. VII. CAUSES OF ERRORS OF CHURCH PARTY. 267 rapid for permanence in the then state of the country. The varioas Plots for which the times were infamous exploded at last in that which sent Bussell and Sidney to the scaffold, and banished Shaftesbury for ever. The danger to which the King had been subjected awoke the whole slumbering loyalty of the nation. The danger of a return to the old dreaded despotism of anti-Churchmen... terrified the people. The no-Popery cry of the Whigs, righteous as it was at bottom, had been wholly discredited by the exposure of the Plots. Clergy and lawyers, town and country, peer and peasant, joined alike in one great burst of Tory feeling. " The Whigs," says Hallam, " so late in the heyday of their pride, lay, like the fallen angels, prostrate upon the fiery lake." * The shocking state of our Law Courts presented only too great facilities for revenge; and the last years of Charles II. 's reign displayed a very general acceptance of the same absolute principles which ushered it in.
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