 | John Parker Lawson - 1844 - 950 sider
...system to be sanctioned as the national establishment after the Restoration. But the proceedings of the Parliament, which met at Edinburgh on the 1st of January 1661, sufficiently intimated that whatever was to be done the Covenants and their supporters were to expect... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1858 - 560 sider
...nationality, which was to involve the loss of the civil and religious rights which were dearest to the nation. The Parliament which met at Edinburgh on the 1st of January, 1661, has been honoured with the name of " the drunken Parliament." Burnet says, " It was a mad roaring time,... | |
 | Richard Eddy - 1887 - 492 sider
...dancing, feasting and revelling, more resembling a luxurious and abandoned rout than a Christian court." | The Parliament which met at Edinburgh on the 1st of January, 1661, to accommodate the people and the laws to their changed condition on the accession of Charles, " has... | |
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It was a mad roaring time, full of extravagance ; and no wonder it was so, when the men of affairs were almost perpetually drunk. 