England under Charles II. from the Restoration to the Treaty of Nimeguen, 1660-1678: English History from Contemporary Writers
Taylor, W. F.
1889
Other and stronger reasons.
Ibid., p. 25. . | |
The king was at this time particularly displeased | |
132 | with his grace [the duke of Buckingham], for that being summoned by the House of Commons to give an account of some malversations when he was minister, he did not appear; he did not only appear, being a peer, and that without the king's leave, but to excuse himself reflected upon others, and upon the whole behaved in that assembly in too mean and submissive a manner; which, however, was of no avail to him against the Commons, who addressed the king to lay him aside with regard to all offices of trust or profit. His grace was also called to the bar of the House of Peers for scandalously living with the Lady Shrewsbury as man and wife, he being a married man, and for having killed my lord Shrewsbury after he had debauched his wife. |