This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 Excerpt: ... to allow the members to sit when they would support him, but that time never came. In this way he prevented public opposition, but still he could not altogether shut people's mouths. The coflee-houses of London were now the chief places where men met daily. A Turkish merchant had first opened a coffee house in ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 Excerpt: ... to allow the members to sit when they would support him, but that time never came. In this way he prevented public opposition, but still he could not altogether shut people's mouths. The coflee-houses of London were now the chief places where men met daily. A Turkish merchant had first opened a coffee house in Cromwell's time, and they spread rapidly all over the town, each man having his favourite Cofl!ondoneS haunt where he met his special friends, who discussed scandal, literature, politics, or religion over their coffee and tobacco-smoke. Popular coffee-houses, such as Wills's in Covent Garden, became almost little parliaments in themselves, and had so much influence that Charles II. had tried to close them in 1675; but there was such an outcry that they had to be opened again, and now people discussed in them daily the strange conduct of the king. James, however, cared very little for public opinion. As soon as Parliament was prorogued he privately consulted all the judges as to his "Power of Dispensation." Four of them Dispensation, ventured to tell him that he had no power apart from Parliament. These he dismissed, and put more obedient judges in their place. Then he managed that Sir Edward Hales, a Roman Catholic whom he had made Governor of Dover, should be tried for not taking the test. Hales pleaded that the king had "dispensed" with it, and of course the judges, having promised the king, gave a verdict in his favour. After this farce James went on steadily, turning out churchmen and putting in Roman Catholics. He began a system called "closeting," that is, taking men into his private room, and asking them whether they would vote against the Test Act. If they would not they were sure soon after to lose their post. J...
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