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Journal of the Reign of King George the Third; From the Year 1771-1783
Journal of the Reign of King George the Third From the Year 17711783 Author:Horace Walpole General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1859 Original Publisher: R. Bentley Subjects: Great Britain Great Britain History 1760-1789 Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary History / Europe / Great Britain Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR ... more »reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: MARCH. On the third readingi Lord Lyttelton put home to the bishops their renegade behaviour, which was defended on mere political principles by the Archbishop of York3 and the Bishops of St. Asaph3 and Lincoln.4 I approve bishops that are good citizens; but if the duty of a citizen clashes with that of a pastor, and he prefers the former, I know what to think of his Christianity. In the present case I am certain that the Bench made a compliment of their religion to their King, not a sacrifice of it to their country, whose future peace their votes may dreadfully have hazarded. Those fathers of the Church were hampered by the Duke of Richmond, who quoted a case8 that happened in the reign of Henry VI., when, a law being passed to forbid the remarriage of a Queen Dowager, the whole Bench of Bishops refused to join in it. After two more divisions the bill was passed at night and sent to the Commons. A protest of great strength and weight, admirably drawn by the Duke of Richmond and Edmund Burke, was signed by fourteen of the dissenting Peers: another, more confined to the argument of religion, was signed by Lord Temple, Lord Lyttelton, and four more; and a short one by the Lord Radnor alone.' i March 3rd. ] son of the Duke de Brancas. Laura- ! Dr. Hay Drummond. gais, a wild dissolute man, of a head not Dr. Barrington, brother of Lord very sound, but of some parts, had come Ha...« less