3Ö8 Mr. N E A L 's lid Vol. of the * Lord Clarendon tells us, ' That as foon as the Houfe of Commons heard of this Defignation of z his Maj(fty's (having newly, the fecond time,Jent up to the Houfe of Peers their Bill to remove. Bi- {hops from thence) they were much 'troubled, , that at that time, when they refolv'd to take a- way the old, the King fhould prefume to make new Bifhops, and to create fo many Voices to affift the other ; and therefore they urg'd very arneftly, that the Lords might be mov'd to join with them-in fending to the King, to make no new Bifhops, till the Controverfy fhould be end- ed about the Government of the Church : which . ` appear'd fo unreafonable, that the wifeft of them, ' who wifh'd it, 'apprehended no pofiibility that the Lords would join with them ; or if they did, that the King would be prevail'd with.' He ob- ferves in the fame place, ' That all the new - made Bifhops were Men of great eminency in the Church, frequent Preachers, and not a Man to ' whom the Faults of the governing Clergy was then imputed, or againft whom the leaft Objec- tion could be made.' Neal, p. y i z. A Committee had been appointed a Twelvemonth ago, at the Motion of the LordDigby, to draw out all the Grievances of the .Nation ; fuch a Remonftrance as might be a faithful Reprefentation to his Majefty, ofthe deplorable State ofthe Kingdom but it was laid afide till this time, when the Profpecrt of an Agreement betwixt him and his Parliament be- ing almofl at an end, after the breaking out ofthe Irifh Infurre tion and Maffacre; it was perfetled and read in the Houleof Commons, Nov. 22. Lord Clarendon obferves, -¡ ' That this Rernon- ftrance contain'd a very bitter Reprefentation of all the Illegal Things which had beendone, from * Hiftoryof the Rebellion, Vol. -I. p. 239. Hitt. Vol. I. p. 24.y. the
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