A History of the English-speaking Peoples: The age of revolutionCassell, 1956 - English-speaking countries |
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... Crown should be jointly vested in the persons of William and Mary . His triumph was com- plete , and it was he who presented the Crown and the Declaration of Rights to the two sovereigns on behalf of both Houses . But his conception of ...
... Crown should be jointly vested in the persons of William and Mary . His triumph was com- plete , and it was he who presented the Crown and the Declaration of Rights to the two sovereigns on behalf of both Houses . But his conception of ...
Page 115
... Crown , but there was little interference from home , and they soon learned to govern themselves . While distracted by the Civil War the Mother Country left them alone , and although Cromwell's Common- wealth asserted that Parliament ...
... Crown , but there was little interference from home , and they soon learned to govern themselves . While distracted by the Civil War the Mother Country left them alone , and although Cromwell's Common- wealth asserted that Parliament ...
Page 136
... Crown was challenged the Whigs could exclude the Tories from office by denouncing them as Jacobites , but by 1760 the cause of the Stuart Pretenders was dead , the succession was un- disputed , and George III ascended the throne on the ...
... Crown was challenged the Whigs could exclude the Tories from office by denouncing them as Jacobites , but by 1760 the cause of the Stuart Pretenders was dead , the succession was un- disputed , and George III ascended the throne on the ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE I WILLIAM OF ORANGE | 3 |
CONTINENTAL WAR | 13 |
THE SPANISH SUCCESSION | 23 |
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