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The History of England from the Accession of James II.

CHAPTER XVIII
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All that remained was to try whether a flame could be raised in the Parliament.
Soon after the Houses met, Fuller petitioned the Commons to hear what he had to say, and promised to make wonderful disclosures.

He was brought from his prison to the bar of the House; and he there repeated a long romance.

James, he said, had delegated the regal authority to six commissioners, of whom Halifax was first.

More than fifty lords and gentlemen had signed an address to the French King, imploring him to make a great effort for the restoration of the House of Stuart.

Fuller declared that he had seen this address, and recounted many of the names appended to it.


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