The History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar, to the Revolution in 1688, Volume 11Christie & Son; Baldwin & Company; Sharpe & Son; Akerman; Smith & Company ... [and 40 others], 1819 - Great Britain |
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Page vii
... Allies are defeated at Steenkirk ...... .. Extravagant rejoicings in France on Account of this Victory .... Conspiracy against the Life of King William , hatched by the French Ministry .... Miscarriage of a Design upon Dunkirk .... The ...
... Allies are defeated at Steenkirk ...... .. Extravagant rejoicings in France on Account of this Victory .... Conspiracy against the Life of King William , hatched by the French Ministry .... Miscarriage of a Design upon Dunkirk .... The ...
Page viii
... Allies .... who are defeated at Landen .... Charleroy is besieged and taken by the Enemy .... Campaign on the Rhine .... The Duke of Savoy is defeated by Catinat in the Plain of Marsaglia .... Trans- actions in Hungary and Catalonia ...
... Allies .... who are defeated at Landen .... Charleroy is besieged and taken by the Enemy .... Campaign on the Rhine .... The Duke of Savoy is defeated by Catinat in the Plain of Marsaglia .... Trans- actions in Hungary and Catalonia ...
Page ix
... Allies burn the Magazine at Givet .... Louis the Fourteenth makes Advances towards a Peace with Holland .... He detaches the Duke of Savoy from the Confederacy ...... .. Naval Transactions .... Proceedings in the Parliaments of Scotland ...
... Allies burn the Magazine at Givet .... Louis the Fourteenth makes Advances towards a Peace with Holland .... He detaches the Duke of Savoy from the Confederacy ...... .. Naval Transactions .... Proceedings in the Parliaments of Scotland ...
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... allies on the conti- nent . In the midst of this debate , the bill was brought down from the lords , and being read , a committee was appointed to make some amendments . These were no sooner made than the commons sent it back to the ...
... allies on the conti- nent . In the midst of this debate , the bill was brought down from the lords , and being read , a committee was appointed to make some amendments . These were no sooner made than the commons sent it back to the ...
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... allies . It was stipulated , that neither side should engage in a separate treaty , on any pretence whatsoever ; that no peace should be admitted , until the treaties of Westphalia , Osnabruck , Munster , and the Pyrenees , should have ...
... allies . It was stipulated , that neither side should engage in a separate treaty , on any pretence whatsoever ; that no peace should be admitted , until the treaties of Westphalia , Osnabruck , Munster , and the Pyrenees , should have ...
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Page 409 - Will you, to the utmost of your power, maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the gospel, and the Protestant reformed religion, established by law...
Page 365 - That after the said limitation shall take effect as aforesaid, judges' commissions be made Quamdiu se bene gesserint, and their salaries ascertained and established ; but upon the address of both Houses of Parliament it may be lawful to remove them.
Page 365 - England as by law established, that, in case the crown and imperial dignity of this realm shall hereafter come to any person, not being a native of this kingdom of England, this nation be not obliged to engage in any war for the defence of any dominions or territories which do not belong to the crown of England...
Page 365 - That no person who has an office or place of profit under the King, or receives a pension from the crown, shall be capable of serving as a member of the house of commons.
Page 13 - Protestant Subjects dissenting from the Church of England from the Penalties of certain Laws...
Page 365 - That in case the crown and imperial dignity of this realm shall hereafter come to any person not being a native of this kingdom of England this nation be not obliged to engage in any war for the defence of any dominions or territories which do not belong to the crown of England without the consent of Parliament.
Page 397 - An act for the further security of his Majesty's person and the succession of the crown in the Protestant line, and for extinguishing the hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales, and all other pretenders, and their open and secret abettors...
Page 404 - ... tender affection. On the eighth day of March he expired, in the fifty-second year of his age, after having reigned thirteen years. The lords Lexington and Scarborough, who were in waiting, no sooner perceived...
Page 388 - Austrian interest: but this weak prince was a slave to his ministers, whom the French king had corrupted. During this summer, the French coasts were overawed by the combined fleets of England and Holland, under the command of sir George Rooke, who sailed down the channel in the latter end of August, and detached vice-admiral Benbow with a strong squadron to the West Indies.
Page 403 - March, when his knee appeared to be inflamed, with great pain and weakness. Next day he granted a commission under the great seal to several peers, for passing the bills to which both houses of parliament had agreed ; namely, the act of attainder against the pretended prince of Wales, and another in favour of the quakers, enacting, that their solemn affirmation and declaration should be accepted instead of an oath in the usual form.