Note 117 — Chapter XIV · THE REIGN OF JAMES II.
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"The king now finding that nothing which had the least appearance of novelty, though never so well warranted by the prerogative, would go down with the people, unless it had the parliamentary stamp on it, resolved to try if he could get the penal laws and test taken off by that authority." Life of James, ii. 134. But it seems by M. Mazure's authorities, that neither the king nor Lord Sunderland wished to convoke a parliament, which was pressed forward by the eager catholics, ii. 399.