"We saw, that no Expedient would be entertain'd but that of a total Exclusion, which We had so often declar'd, was a Point, that in Our Own Royal Judgment, so nearly concern'd Us both in Honour, Justice, and Conscience, that We could never consent to it: In short, We cannot, after the sad Experience We have had of the late Civil Wars, that Murder'd Our Father of Blessed Memory, and ruin'd the Monarchy, consent to a Law, that shall establish another most Unnatural War, or at least make it necessary to maintain a Standing Force for the Preserving the Government and the Peace of the Kingdom."
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His Majesty's Declaration to all his Loving Subjects, touching the Causes and Reasons that moved Him to Dissolve the Two last Parliaments (8 April 1681), quoted in Memoirs Relating to the Impeachment of Thomas Earl of Danby, (Now Duke of Leeds,) In the Year, 1678 (1711), pp. 102-103
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Charles II of England
Charles II of England (29 May 1630 – 6 February 1685) was the King of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
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