Constitutional History of England, Henry VII to George II. Volume 3 of 3

CHAPTER XIII

ON THE STATE OF THE CONSTITUTION UNDER CHARLES II.

It may seem rather an extraordinary position, after the last chapters, yet is strictly true, that the fundamental privileges of the subject were less invaded, the prerogative swerved into fewer excesses, during the reign of Charles II. than perhaps in any former period of equal length. Thanks to the patriot energi...