This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1744 edition. Excerpt: ... 1689; Committee to inquire into the death os the Earl 's Essex. Pr H. L. I. 3jo. In the beginning of the session, a close committee had been appointed by the Lords to examine and take informations concerning the death of the late Earl of EJsex, which had been attended with many suspicious ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1744 edition. Excerpt: ... 1689; Committee to inquire into the death os the Earl 's Essex. Pr H. L. I. 3jo. In the beginning of the session, a close committee had been appointed by the Lords to examine and take informations concerning the death of the late Earl of EJsex, which had been attended with many suspicious circumstances; and this committee was revived in the next session, but before the report was made to the house, the Parliament was dissolved, and consequently a stop put to all proceedings (j). The (l) The substance of the evidence offered to the committee to prove that Earl to have been murdered, with the reasons why the inquiry was not resumed in the next Parliament in 1690, is related by Laurence Braddon, in his book against Burnet, p. 186, &c. where he fays, " I believe, that no prosecution of any * murther, in the Britijh Annals recorded, ever met ' with such opposition, as the prosecution of this mur- ' der did. And, first, from all the Jacobite interejl, c as well Protestant as Papist. And how great that ' interest ever since the Revolution hath been, the * many treasonable conspiracies and open rebellions ' have sufficiently proved. Secondly, King JameslI. ' being father to the late Queen Mary and Queen ' Anne, it is natural to suppose, that neither of those 1 two Queens would have had their father stigmatized ' with that most infamous character of being a mur- ' derer, and in more instances than one. And whe- ' ther King IVdliam, out of respect to his Queen, ' might any ways hinder the fixing such an infamy ' upon his Queen's father, I cannot tell. But this I ' sensibly felt te be true, viz. that Queen Anne upon ' her first coming to the crown, struck me out of ' the civil list, because, as her Majesty then said, 1 ' had thrown blood in her...
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