February 11 Sir Thomas Gascoigne tried for high treason and acquitted. February 24 The Duke of York returns from Scotland. February 26 Declaration of the Scottish Privy Council of their abhorrence of tumultuous petitions published in the _Gazette_ marks the beginning of the “abhorrers’” addresses. March 8 The king and the Duke of York entertained at a banquet by the Lord Mayor. March 30 Thomas Dare of Taunton fined for seditious and dangerous words. April 15 Assault on Arnold. April 26 and June 7 Declarations published in the _Gazette_ denying all truth in the rumour of the Black Box. May 11 Indictment of high treason, on Dangerfield’s evidence, against the Countess of Powis ignored by the grand jury of Middlesex. May 13 The king ill at Windsor. May 15 “A Letter to a Person of Honour concerning the Black Box” published. May 24 Trial and conviction of Tasborough and Price. June 10 Conclusion of a treaty between England and Spain to maintain the peace of Nymeguen. June 11 Mrs. Cellier tried for high treason and acquitted. June 23 The Earl of Castlemaine tried for high treason and acquitted. June 26 Shaftesbury, with Titus Oates and fourteen peers and commoners, presents the Duke of York as a popish recusant. July 14 Trial and conviction of Giles for an attempt to murder Arnold. July 28, 29 Trials for high treason at York. Lady Tempest, Sir Miles Stapleton, and Mary Pressicks acquitted, but Thwing, a priest, convicted. August–October Western progress of the Duke of Monmouth. August 20 Death of Bedloe at Bristol. September 11 Trial and conviction of Mrs. Cellier for writing and publishing a libel. October 20 The Duke of York leaves London for Edinburgh. October 21 Meeting of Charles II’s fourth Parliament. October 26 Dangerfield at the bar of the House of Commons. October 28 Bedloe’s deathbed deposition read to the House of Commons. Two members of