Exclusion Bill | English history | Britannica (original) (raw)

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political crisis

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  In United Kingdom: The exclusion crisis and the Tory reaction
  …when the Commons passed the Exclusion Bill, Charles dissolved Parliament and called new elections. These did not change the mood of the country, for in the second Exclusion Parliament (1679) the Commons also voted to bypass the duke of York in favour of his daughter Mary and William of Orange,…
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Shaftesbury’s role

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  In Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st earl of Shaftesbury: The Exclusion Bill
  His strategy was primarily aimed at securing the passage of the Exclusion Bill, which would keep the Catholic James from the throne, using Charles’s illegitimate son, the duke of Monmouth, a puppet of Shaftesbury, as a possible claimant to the throne. Although the…
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