Note 12 — CHARACTER OF SHAFTESBURY (1681).
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Shaftesbury.
[13] England.
[14] The President of the Jewish judicature. Shaftesbury had been made Lord Chancellor in 1672.
[15] Charles II.
[16] The Popish Plot.
[17] A Roman Catholic.
[18] The English people.
[19] Monmouth, whom Shaftesbury proposed as Charles II.'s successor during the Exclusion controversy (1679-1681).