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and a bill was brought in for the total exclusion of the Duke from the Crown of England and Ireland--This important Bill which implied banishment passed in the Year 1679-- The Habeas Corpus act past this session, by-- this act no judge under severe penalties can refuse to any prisoner a writ of Habeas Corpus by which the gaoler is directed to produce in court the body of the prisoner and to certify the cause of his detainer and imprisonment and no Man after being enlarged by order of court, can be recommitted for the same offence--The year --1680-- was remarkable for being the Epoch of the well known epe thats of Wig & Tory--In --1679-- a Plot was discovered called the [[underline]] Meal-tub Plot [[/underline]] from the place where some papers relative to it were found; Dangerfield a Man of bad Character seemed to have been the author of it, but it had been countenenced by some Catholics of [[underline]] condition [[/underline]] Notwithstanding other discoveries a regular project of insurrection was found to oppose the succession of the Duke of York at the head of which were Monmouth, Russel Essex
