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| Archive Reference / Library Class No. | D239/M/O/1120 |
| Title | Open letter to George Treby from "yor friends in the country who dayly pray for you and are very sensible that their estates, liberty of religion and lives are bound up in this noble house of commons, [and who] are ever astonished at the late proceedings of the house of lords touching the bill of succession"; the following are expected - (1) if parliament is prorogued or dissolved it must publish a remonstrance "touching the great and iminent danger the kingdome and religion is in ..." (2) to pass no bills sent down by the lords or the court until the question of succession is settled (3) a curb on the powers of the bishops (4) a close association with the City of London for the defence of the realm, if it is impossible to barr the duke of York from the succession, then to pass a bill to set up a "strikt leage and association against poperie and papists as was in the raigne of Q. Elizabeth (5) the securing of protestant leadership in the militia
22 Nov |
| Date | 1680 |
| Description | For copy, see CD/380 |
| Level | file |
| Repository | Derbyshire Record Office |
| Archive Creator | FitzHerbert family of Tissington |
| Copies | A digital copy of this item can be viewed on the public computers at the record office. |
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