To prevent this bill from passing into law, Charles had dissolved the parliament in July 1679, and in the following October had
prorogued its successor, which became known as the
Exclusion Bill Parliament, without allowing it to meet. He was then deluged with petitions urging him to call it together. This agitation was opposed by Sir
George Jeffreys and
Francis Wythens, who presented addresses expressing
abhorrence of the
Petitioners, and thus initiated the movement of the abhorrers, who supported the action of the king. "The frolic went all over England," says
Roger North; and the addresses of the Abhorrers which reached the king from all parts of the country formed a counterblast to those of the
Petitioners. It is said that the terms
Whig and
Tory were first applied to English political parties as consequence of this dispute. ==References==