HISTORY

OF

THE REVOLUTION

IN 1688.

PRINTED BY J. SMITH, 16, RUE MONTMORENCY.

OF

THE REVOLUTION

IN ENGLAND

IN 1688.

COMPRISING

A VIEW OF THE REIGN OF JAMES II.

FROM HIS ACCESSION, TO THE ENTERPRISE OF THE PRINCE OF ORANGE,

BY THE LATE

RIGHT HON. SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH;

AND COMPLETED, TO THE SETTLEMENT OF THE CROWN.

TO WHICH IS PREFIXED,

A NOTICE OF THE LIFE, WRITINGS, AND SPEECHES OF
SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH.

VOL. II.

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CONTENTS.

CHAPTER IX.

Declaration of Indulgence renewed.-Order that it should be read in Churches.-

Deliberations of the Clergy.-Petition of the Bishops to the King.-Their Exa-

mination before the Privy Council, Committal, Trial, and Acquittal.-Reflections.

-Conversion of Sunderland.-Birth of the Prince of Wales.-State of Af-

fairs

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CHAPTER X.

Doctrine of Obedience.-Right of Resistance.-Comparison of Foreign and Civil

War.—Right of calling Auxiliaries.-Relations of the People of England and of

Holland.

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CHAPTER XI.

Extraction of the House of Orange.-Review of the Struggles in the Netherlands.—

Character, Situation, and Projects of William III.—Intrigues of Charles II.—

Fate of the War.-Results of the Treaty of Nimeguen.-Aggrandisement of

Louis XIV.-Austria.-The Netherlands.-England.-Popish Plot.-Bill of Ex-

clusion.-Connexion of English Affairs with William's Policy.

CHAPTER XII.

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Artifices of James.-Designs and Measures of William.-Conduct of Louis XIV.—

His Quarrel with the Pope.-Designs of William upon England.-Penn's Mission.

-Negociations between James and William.-Supposed secret Treaty with

France. Liberty of Conscience.-The Protestant Succession.-Mission and In-

trigues of Dyckvelt, and of Zuylistein.-Correspondence of Stuart and Fagel.—

Letters between the King and the Princess
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CHAPTER XIII.

Discussions between James and the States General.-Abuse of the Press.-Conduct

of Tyrconnel.-Recall of the British Regiments from Holland.--Intrigue of Sun-

derland.-Pretences and Preparations of the Prince of Orange.-Second Mission

of Zuylistein.—The Prince invited over.-Principles of the King and the Revo-

lutionists.-Letters to the Prince from England.-Armament of the Prince.-

Conduct of the King.-Mission of Bonrepaux.-Memorial of D'Avaux.-Enter-

prise of the Prince.

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