Ecclesiastical History of England: From the Opening of the Long Parliament to the Death of Oliver Cromwell (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Ecclesiastical History of England: From the Opening of the Long Parliament to the Death of Oliver Cromwell
It will be found that in this Volume I have assigned a large space to the attempt at Comprehension in the year 1689 - as it is a subject of present interest, and because the proceedings connected with it have been but inadequately described. An examination of the Bill introduced for the purpose to the House of Lords - a comparison of the Journals of both Houses, whence it appears that another Bill of the same kind was contemporaneously proposed in the House of Commons - the report of the proceedings of the Commissioners in 1689, published by order of the House of Commons in 1854 - and a curious Diary preserved in Dr. William's Library - together with other original sources of information, have enabled me to present a fuller, and, I hope, more accurate, account of that important but ineffective transaction than has hitherto appeared. As I believe the Lords' Bill has never been printed, I have arranged for its insertion in the Appendix.
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