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our Surprise must be a good deal lessen'd. Perhaps Court influence might also have had its effect, the King found Himself in a very critical situation, in so much that according to Burnet, He once thought of quitting the Government; To proscribe the Torys & restore the Corporations was Surrendering Himself to the Mercy of the Whigs, but on the other Side to leave the Elections in the State, in which the infamous foreign:Latin Quo- Warrantos /foreign had plac'd them, & trusting the Management of His affairs to those Men whom in the first Convention of the Estates He had not deign'd to Summon carry'd the appearance of great inconsistency to give it no harsher term, in this Situation the King took refuge in the Irish Campain