Brewer's: Exclusion

Bill of Exclusion. A bill to exclude the Duke of York from the throne, on account of his being a Papist. Passed by the Commons, but rejected by the Lords, in 1679; revived in 1681.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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