HISTORY and PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE of LORDS, FROM THE RESTORATION in 1660, TO THE PRESENT TIME. CONTAINING, The moft Remarkable MoTIONS, SPEECHES, Together with all the PROTESTS during that Period AND THE Numbers Pro and Con upon each Divifion. An Account of the Promotions of the feveral PEERS, and Connected with the Tranfactions of the COMMONS, AND Illuftrated with HISTORICAL NOTES and OBSERVATIONS. Together with the DEBATES in the Parliament of SCOTLAND To each VOLUME 'are added proper INDEXES. VOLUME the FIRST, from 1660, to 1697. LONDON: Printed for EBENEZER TIMBERLAND, in Skip-Yard, Temple-Bar, PREFACE. UR Annals have hitherto contained little more than the Hiftories of Kings and their Minifters. The History of the Parliament, which is the Hiftory of the ENGLISH People, having been neglected. To fupply that Defect, therefore, as far as the Wafte of Time will give leave, is one of the most effectual Services, that in the Way of Record can be done to the Public; and as fuch, no doubt, will be received in After-Ages, when from these Collections they fhall derive the double Advantages of Precedents and Warnings. For this Reafon, if the Tranfactions of the COMMONS had not been already fet forth, with all the Care, Fidelity, and Exactness, that fo great a Work would admit of, in Mr. Chandler's History; this Undertak ing would have been compofed jointly of the Proceedings of both Houses; but as they have render'd one Half of our Original Defign unneceffary, thofe of the LORDS became our only Province, which we have endeavoured to make goodby all the Refearches in the Power of private Men to make, And that no Advantage might be wanting, we have connected this Account of the LORDS with Mr. Chandler's Hiftory of the COMMONS, illustrated it with many useful explanatory Notes, and interwove it, till the Reach of our own Memories, with an Abftract of the moft material Occurrences of the Times, by way of Link between Seffion and Seffion. THE TO NC K's Letter to the Gentlemen of Devon, Page z. His Speech to the Members at Whitehall, 4. Declaration, ibid. The King's Letter to the House of Peers, 9. Votes thereon, 7. King's Speech to the Lords, relating to the Act of Oblivion, 8. A Summary of the Proceedings relating to the faid Act, 10. And of the A& itself, 12. Lord Chancellor's Speech, 13. Second Seffion of the Convention Parliament, 21. Pro- teft on a Bill to vacate certain Fines, 22. The First Seffion of the First Parliament of King Precedencies of the Lords in Parliament, 36. Bill to make void Fines levied by Sir Edward Powell, paf- Second Seffion of the Second Parliament, 40. The Lord |