Lord shaftesbury
Earl of shaftesbury disappearance
Lord shaftesbury child labour.
He supported the Rump Parliament against John Lambert and then participated in the Restoration (1660) of Charles II.
Cooper was made a Privy Councilor and Baron Ashley in 1661and he assisted in the trial of the regicides, but otherwise worked for a lenient settlement.
The same year he became Chancellor of the Exchequer and gained royal favor by his support of religious toleration.
Named one of the original eight Lords Proprietors of Carolina, he took considerable interest in plans for the colony, commissioning his friend John Locke to draw up a constitution for it.
He joined the opposition to the 1st Earl of Clarendon and, when the latter fell (1667), became a member of the cabal administration.
Created 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, he became Lord Chancellor in 1672.
Shaftesbury had not been party to the secret Treaty of Dover (1670), and he gradually became suspicious of the King’s efforts to improve the position of Roman Catholics.
Renouncing his earlier belief in toleration,