Non tamen pigebit vel incondita ac rudi voce memoriam prioris fervitutis, ac TACIT. Agricola. LONDON: Printed for JAMES RIVINGTON and JAMES FLETCHER, at the MDCCLIX. 3-23-65 THE HISTORY O F ENGLAND. BOOK EIGHT H. From the REVOLUTION to the Death of T ********** WILLIAM III. bill, and liaments. i HE old Whig principle was not yet wholly A.C. 1692– expelled from the lower house. The un- An account due influence of the court was exerted in of the placefuch an open fcandalous manner, as gave offence to that for trithe majority of the commons. In the midst of all enn al par their condefcenfion, Sir Edward Huffey, member for Lincoln, brought in a bill touching free and impartial proceedings in parliament. It was intended to disable all members of parliament from enjoying places of truft and profit, and particularly levelled against the officers of the army and navy, who had infinuated themfelves into the house in fuch numbers, that this was commonly called the officers parliament. The bill paffed the houfe of commons, and was fent up to the lords, by whom |