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Minister in the House of Commons; his declining however was of no use to Sir Robert, & still less to Hambden Chancellor of the Exchequer, who either excus'd himself or was dismiss'd from the direction of the ways & means, Sommers being made Chairman of the Committee who added that immense land to all his other business.

The King arriv'd in Sept. & open'd the Session on the 2d. of Oct. by a Speech, wherein He declar'd that Ireland must have been subdu'd if He had been enabl'd to take the field soon enough.

That the Army had done much with little Pay.