The history of England, from the accession of James the Second . surdity must have shocked eventhe roughest and plainest foxhunter in the House. A reaction tookplace ; and when, after an interval of a few weeks, it was proposed toinsert in a bill of supply a clause in conformity with the resolutionof the twelfth of December, the Noes were loud : the Speaker was ofopinion that they had it: the Ayes did not venture to dispute his See Commons Journals, Dec. 3. 1691 ; and Greys Debates. It is to be regretted that theReport of the Commissioners of Accounts has not been preserved. Lowther, in his le
The history of England, from the accession of James the Second . surdity must have shocked eventhe roughest and plainest foxhunter in the House. A reaction tookplace ; and when, after an interval of a few weeks, it was proposed toinsert in a bill of supply a clause in conformity with the resolutionof the twelfth of December, the Noes were loud : the Speaker was ofopinion that they had it: the Ayes did not venture to dispute his See Commons Journals, Dec. 3. 1691 ; and Greys Debates. It is to be regretted that theReport of the Commissioners of Accounts has not been preserved. Lowther, in his letter to hisson, alludes to the badgering of this day \sith great bitterness. What man, he asks, thathath bread to eat, can endure, after having served with all the diligence and application man-kind is capable of, and after having given satisfaction to the King from whom all officers of statederive their authoritie, after acting rightly by all men, to be baited by men who do it to allpeople in authoritie ? 2 CommonsJournals, Dec. 12. 1691. THE VISVIRPERS HABIT. y, i/:^tf hf^u*? . ^L-n^irth .niiist Ai^ fair J^ty^L-r^ ,- f3.^ui//>^r. 7>*iuutC: ^^.X,:^ ^^ . ? .^^ ? *}l\Zt^. ^^. Jrcii^r. .;,./ THE USURPERS HABIT: A CARICATURE AGAINST LEWIS XIVNumber 1267 in the Briliih Museum Catalogue of Satirical Prints .o88 HISTORY OK ENGLAND chap, xvm opinion: the senseless |il;ui which h;ul licen approved without a divisionwas rejected without a chvision ; and the subject was not again men-tioned. Thus a grievance so scandalous that none of those who profitedby it dared ti) defenil it was perpetuated merely by the imbecility andintemperance of those w ho attacked it. Karl\- in the Session the Treaty of Limerick became the subject of a grave and earnest discussion. The Commons, in the exercise of that , ^ supreme iwwer which the luiglish legislature possessed over Act CXClud- l . r T 1 1 1 T I 1-11 inp Papists all the dependenci
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