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Parliament continued almost every day for over two months and names were added and taken off the list of those who were not to be pardoned. Initially, there were only seven
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Oblivion, the House agreed to the final amendments to which a joint house conference had agreed and ordered that the Bill of "General Pardon, Indemnity, and Oblivion" be sent to the Lords, as it was now amended. The reply came back from the House of Lords that his Majesty
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and interregnum were left for private negotiation or litigation, meaning that the government would not help the
Loyalists in regaining their property. Disappointed Royalists commented that the Act meant "indemnity for enemies and oblivion for his friends". Historians, on the other hand, have
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X. Exceptions out of this pardon. All murders not comprised in the first clause of this pardon excepted. Piracy excepted. Buggery. Rape and the wilful taking away any maid excepted. Double marriages excepted
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