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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition. 7 1 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 17: (search)
sts, and advocating with power a bill for the ease of Protestant dissenters. Shaftesbury 1673 fell. Under the Lord Treasurer Danby, the old Cavaliers 1673 to 1679 recovered power. It was the day for statues to Charles I., and new cathedrals. To win strength for his party from the favor of Protestant opinion, Danby avowed his willingness to aid in crushing Popery, and he gave his influence to the Popish plot. But Shaftesbury was already sure of the merchants and dissenters. Let the tres, there were many corrupt members who would never have been elected but in the first fit of loyalty at the restoration. Danby preferred the unfitness of a perpetual parliament to the hazard of a new election, and, by pensions and rewards, purchaseaxim, never to grant Chap. XVII.} so much at once that they should cease to be wanted; and, discovering the intrigues of Danby for a permanent revenue from France, they were honorably true to nationality, and true also to the base instinct of selfi