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The Satires of Dryden By John Dryden, John Churton Collins

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The Satires of Dryden By John Dryden, John Churton Collins

The Satires of Dryden By John Dryden, John Churton Collins: "

generally the prejudice against Papacy was strongest All now began to centre on this question and two great parties were formed The one party insisted on the exclusion of the Duke of York from the right of succession on the ground of his religion These were the Petitioners afterwards nicknamed Whigs and the Ex clusionists their leader was the Earl of Shaftesbury The other party strongest among Churchmen and the aristocracy were anxious partly in accordance with the theory of the divine right of kings and the duty of passive obedience and partly with an eye to their own interests to please the king by supporting the claim of his brother These were the Abhorrers afterwarHs nicknamed Tories The object of the Exclusionists was to inflame the populace against the Papists For this purpose the infamous fictions of Gates and his accomplices were accepted and promulgated

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The Satires of Dryden By John Dryden, John Churton Collins

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against his own subjects should they attempt to oppose his designs Between the end of 1667 and the beginning of 1674 the government was in the hands of the Cabal the most unprincipled and profligate ministry in the annals of our constitutional history Then followed the administration of Danby Danby with all his faults had the honesty to exchange the shuffling and ignominious tactics of the Cabal for cordial and consistent hatred of the French abroad and of Papists and Nonconformists at home The Peace of Nimeguen August 1678 threw England back on herself Danby fell partly because no minister at such a time could hold his own for long mainly owing to the machinations of Louis XIV who was to the England of Charles II what his predecessor Louis XI had been to the Switzerland of Charles the Bold and to the England of Edward IV From a jarring chaos of Ca

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The Satires of Dryden By John Dryden, John Churton Collins

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INTRODUCTION TO ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL the fall of Clarendon in August 1667 to the of Shaftesbury in January 1683 England was in high state of ferment and agitation The mad joy of 1660 had undergone its natural reaction and this reaction was intensified by a long series of national calamities and political blunders There were feuds in the Cabinet and among the people the religion of the country was iii imminent peril the Royal house had become a centre of perfidy and disaffection Clarendon had been made the scape goat of the disasters which marked the commencement of the reign of the miserable squabbles attendant on the Act of Indemnity of the first Dutch War of the Sale of Dunkirk but Clarendon was now in exile and with him was removed one of the very few honourable ministers in the service of the Stuarts The Triple Alliance April 1668 was followed by the

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The Satires of Dryden By John Dryden, John Churton Collins

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of Louis XIV who was to the England of Charles II what his predecessor Louis XI had been to the Switzerland of Charles the Bold and to the England of Edward IV From a jarring chaos of Cavaliers Puritans Eoman Catholics Presbyterians country parties of colliding interests of maddened Commons of a corrupted and corrupting ministry of a disaffected Church of plots and counter plots of a Royal house ostensibly in opposition but secretly in union two great parties had been gradually defining themselves In May 1662 the king had married Catharine of Braganza but he had no issue by her and as she had now 1679 been his wife for seventeen years they were not likely to have issue and the question of the succession

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The Satires of Dryden By John Dryden, John Churton Collins

The Satires of Dryden By John Dryden, John Churton Collins: "

against his own subjects should they attempt to oppose his designs Between the end of 1667 and the beginning of 1674 the government was in the hands of the Cabal the most unprincipled and profligate ministry in the annals of our constitutional history Then followed the administration of Danby Danby with all his faults had the honesty to exchange the shuffling and ignominious tactics of the Cabal for cordial and consistent hatred of the French abroad and of Papists and Nonconformists at home The Peace of Nimeguen August 1678 threw England back on herself Danby fell partly because no minister at such a time could xxxiv INTRODUCTION TO

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