Note 292 — Chapter IX · FORMATION OF A NEW MINISTRY. TUMULTUOUS AGITATION IN THE CAPITAL.
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Clarendon iv. 372: ‘By the concurrence and number of the meaner people men of the most active and pragmatical heads should be elected.’ These events in the city would be worth a searching investigation. Some information is given by the (one must admit) party pamphlet of Samuel Butler, A Letter from Mercurius Civicus, etc., in Someis’ Tracts iv. 584.