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 A N N E S I. E Y. 2, 9 Xvtil, Mr. Anncfley, though he doubted whether the paili.i- ment was not diflblved by the di-ath of the kiii", iv('>lvcd c< get into the hotife if it was podiMe ; and he bcli ivt-.l in many refpects in fuch a manner. is (hewed what his rial Ii.ii- tirru'nts were, and how much he had the rcfcitlinir of the Conititution at heart. In the confdfion which followed he had little or no (hare, being trulled neither by the parliament nor armv. But when things began to take a different turn, by reftoring the fecluded members to their feat", February 2r, 1660, Mr. Annefley wa< chofen prefident of the coun- cil c>t ftate, having; at that time a correspondence with his majYfty king Charles II. then in exile. Soon after the reftoration, Mr. Annefiey was created earl nj ^ llc ' of Anglefey : in the preamble of the patent, notice is taken V( of the fignal fervices rendered by him in the king's reftora- p. 476. tion. He had always a confiderable (hare in the kind's fa- vour, and was heard with great attention both at council and in the houfe rf lords. In 1667, he was made treafurer of the navy ; and on the 41 h of February, 1671-2, his ma- jefty in council was pleafed to appoint the duke of Bucking- ham, the earl of Anglefey, the lord Holies, the lord AlhleycjHm's Cooper, and Mr. fecretary Trevor, to be a committee toP ra ge. per ufe and revife all the papers and writings concerning che v ' p. * 4-Q Settlement of Ireland, from the firft to the laft, and to make an abftradt thereof in writing ; and accordingly, on the i2th of June, 1672, they made their report at large, which was the foundation of a commiffion, dated the j{t of Auguft, 1672, to prince Rupert, the dukes of Buckingham and Lau- derdale, earl of Anglefey, lords Afhley and Holies, fir John Trevor, and fir Thomas Chicheley, to mfpet the fettle- ments of Ireland, and all proceedings thereunto. In 1673, the earl of Anglefey had the office of lord privy leal conferred upon him. In Odober 1680, his lordfllip was charged byc fe hi s N, T. one Dangerfield in an information delivered upon oath, at T tiv f, the bar of the houfe of commons, wuh endeavouring to ftiflc^ evidence concerning the popifh plot, and to promote the he-houie of lief of a prefbyterian one. The uneafmefs he received f this attack, did not hinder him from (peaking his opinion freely of thofe matters in the houfe or lords, particularly in regard to the Irifh plot. In 1680, the earl of CafUehaven wrote " Memoirs concerning the Affairs of Ireland," where- in he was at fome pains to reprefent the general rebellion in Ireland, in the lighted: colours poflible, as if it had been at Mfmo i, r> firft far from being univcrfal, and at laft rendered fo by nieafurespurfued by luch as ought to have i'upprelFed the in- ("urrtxlion. i jmo.
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