State tracts, being a farther collection of several choice treaties relating to the government from the year 1660 to 1689 : now published in a body, to shew the necessity, and clear the legality of the late revolution, and our present happy settlement, under the auspicious reign of their majesties, King William and Queen Mary.

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Title: State tracts, being a farther collection of several choice treaties relating to the government from the year 1660 to 1689 : now published in a body, to shew the necessity, and clear the legality of the late revolution, and our present happy settlement, under the auspicious reign of their majesties, King William and Queen Mary.
Publication: London :: Printed and are to be sold by Richard Baldwin ...,; 1692.
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Subject terms: Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1689-1702.
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HALYRƲDEHOƲSE.

Sederunt vigesimo primo Die Octobris, 1681.

His Royal Highness, &c.

...Winton,
...Perth,
...Strathmore,
...Queensberry,
...Ancram,
...Airley,
...Lorne,
...Levingston,
Bishop of Edinburgh,
Treasurer Deputy Praeses,
...Register,
...Advocate,
...Collintoun.

This day the Bishop of Edinburgh having drawn up a long Explication of the Test, to satisfie the many Objections and Scruples moved against it, especially by the conformed Clergy, presented it to the Council for their Lordships Approbation, which was ordered to be read; but the Paper proving prolix, and tedious, his Highness, after reading of a few Leaves, interrupted, saying very wittily, and pertinently, That the first Chapter of John with a Stone will chase away a Dog, and so break it off. Yet the Bishop was afterward allowed to print it, if he pleased.