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members as much as this comes to, viz. had 

 promised them, that he would this session use 

 his interest for the passing the bill. This the 

 Queen says was a mistake. I told her hoiv good 

 a House of Commons she had this Parliament, and 

 that she ought if possible to oblige them in such 

 a thing as this, which I was very well satisfied 

 would quiet all. 



** A good deal more passed between us about 

 this business. I freely spoke all my thoughts 

 to the Queen, and told her, I had made it my 

 business to represent her to every body as no 

 enemy to this bill ; and for that end I had taken 

 occasion to tell them what had passed between 

 her Majesty and me upon this occasion ; and I 

 begged her pardon if I had done amiss." 



The other instance of his publicly declaring 

 against the Tory measures was in 1705, when 

 they proposed the calling over the Princess Sophia. 

 From the first time that this design was inti- 

 mated by the Earl of Rochester in the preced- 

 ing Parliament, he could never endure it, as 

 being in his apprehension calculated only to vex 

 the Queen and distract her councils. My Lord 

 Rochester indeed, as well as the Earl of Not- 

 tingham, then looked upon as the heads of the 

 Tory party, strongly espoused this invitation ; 

 and with these lords (says Bishop Burnet), by a 

 strange reverse, all the Tories joined, and by another 



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