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Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 158 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=9mm, Gew.=240gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of t… Mehr…

Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 158 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=9mm, Gew.=240gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. LETTERS TO SA7ILE. Charles The Second, finding that the elections in the country were going against the royal interest, owing to the hatred inspired by the Papists, and especially by the Duke of York, deemed it advisable to propitiate the nation by sending the Duke for a time to Brussels. But this concession failed to appease the people. The whole of England was now strongly imbued with Protestantism; and on the assembling of the new Parliament in March the feeling of the country was fully represented. Charles, who was as keen an observer of men and manners as any man when he chose to rouse himself out of his constitutional indolence, saw that it would not be long before differences arose between him and his "faithful Commons." Nor was he mistaken. Hardly had the Houses assembled than a collision ensued. The bone of contention was the election of a Speaker. The King desired that the choice should fall on Sir Thomas Meres. The Commons, by a vote which seemed to be unanimous, called Seymour, the Speaker to the last Parliament, to the chair. A hot altercation now took place. The King -refused to approve of Seymour's election, and ordered the Lower House to proceed to a new choice. The Commons in their turn maintained that the royal approbation was but a mere form, that the election of the Speaker rested with the House, and that the King could not reject the choice of the Commons without giving full and valid reasons. What then, it was asked, were his Majesty's reasons ? Charlds refused to enter into the question, and contented himself with merely rejecting the appointment of Seymour. At last the undignified dispute was settled by a compromise. Both parties withdrew their candidates, and Gregory, a lawyer, was chosen. Since this discussion, it has ever been r...<

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