, 453.]
[Footnote 197: See his letter to Peel, March 23 ("Peel's Memoirs," i.,
92-100).]
[Footnote 198: The entry of this bill in Cobbett's "Parliamentary
History" is: "The House of Commons testified a very extraordinary zeal
in unravelling the Popish Plot, and, to prevent mischief in the
interval, passed a bill to disable Papists from sitting in either House
of Parliament," to which the Lords, when the bill came up to their
House, added a proviso exempting the Duke of York from its operation.
An. 1678; October 26 to November 21.---_Parliamentary History_, iv.,
1024-1039.]
[Footnote 199: In the House of Commons the majority for Sir F. Burdett's
resolution was six--372 to 266. But, in the House of Lords, Lord
Lansdowne, moving the same resolution, was defeated by forty-five--182
to 137.]
[Footnote 200: See Fitzgerald's letter to Peel ("Peel's Memoirs," i.,
114).]
[Footnote 201: "Peel's Memoirs," i., 121.]
[Footnote 202: See "Lord Anglesey's Letters," _ibid._, pp. 126, 147.]
[Footnote 203: As early as the year 1812, on the negotiations (mentioned
in a former chapter) for the entrance of Lord Grenville and Lord Grey
into the ministry, the Duke of York mentioned to both those noblemen
that the Regent had an insuperable objection to the concession of
Emancipation.
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