bail by Scroggs. July 14 Execution of Langhorn. July 17 Sir Thomas Gascoigne committed to the Tower on a charge of high treason. July 18 Sir George Wakeman, Marshall, Romney, and Corker tried for high treason and acquitted. August Executions in the provinces of priests on account of their orders. August 22 The king ill at Windsor. August 23 The Duke of York summoned from Brussels. August 29 The Duke sets out from Brussels September 2 and reaches Windsor. September 12 The Duke of Monmouth removed from his commission of Lord General. September 24 Monmouth leaves for Holland. September 27 James leaves for Brussels, thence to Scotland. October 7 The new Parliament, meeting, is prorogued by successive stages to October 1680. October 15 Shaftesbury dismissed from his place at the council board. October 20 Dangerfield searches Col. Mansell’s lodgings and is arrested. October 27 Dangerfield committed to prison on charge of high treason. October 29 Papers found in Mrs. Cellier’s meal tub. November 9 Dangerfield pardoned. November 17 First great Pope Burning, organised by the Green Ribbon Club. November 19 Laurence Hyde appointed First Commissioner of the Treasury. November 25 Trial and conviction of Knox and Lane. November 27 Monmouth returns to England without leave. December 6 Archbishop Plunket committed to the castle at Dublin. December 9 Petition of seventeen Whig peers for the sitting of Parliament marks the beginning of the practice of petitioning. December 11 Proclamation against petitioning. 1680. January 6 Mowbray and Bolron pardoned. January 9 Mrs. Cellier accuses Sir Robert Peyton of high treason. January 21 Oates and Bedloe exhibit articles against Lord Chief Justice Scroggs. January 31 Lord Russell, Lord Cavendish, Sir Henry Capel, and Mr. Powle resign their places on the council. February 5 Benjamin Harris tried and convicted for a libel in publishing “An Appeal from the City to the Country.”