ABSTRACT
When Charles returned to England in 1660, he returned as one who had been King since the execution of his father. The claim that Charles I had reigned until his death, and that Charles II had immediately succeeded him, was accepted by the Convention Parliament, and has ever afterwards been recognized by the law. In April, 1679, the Lord Chancellor informed Parliament, by the King’s command, that Charles was ready to consent to the following limitations upon a Roman Catholic successor. At the end of 1680 the Lords considered turning these proposals into law; but no bill actually passed their House. Charles’s last Parliament met in March, 1681, and a third Exclusion Bill was forthwith introduced in the Commons.
