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War with the United Provinces and their extreme Danger. 202
Peace with the United Provinces; Administration of Danby 209
Prorogation of the Parliament; Habeas Corpus Act....... 232
Second General Election of 1679; Popularity of Monmouth. 233
Lawrence Hyde ....
237
Sidney Godolphin..
238
Violence of Factions on the Subject of the Exclusion Bill... 239
Names of Whig and Tory.
240
Meeting of Parliament; the Exclusion Bill passes the Com-
Parliament held at Oxford and dissolved; Tory Reaction.. 244
Persecution of the Whigs.
247
The Charter of the City confiscated; Whig Conspiracies... 248
Detection of the Whig Conspiracies; Severity of the Gov-
ernment. . . .
Seizure of Charters
251
252
State of Factions in the Court of Charles at the Time of his
Death ...
259
CHAPTER III.
Great Change in the State of England since 1685.
261
Population of England in 1685
263
The Increase of Population greater in the North than in the
Tunbridge Wells..
Bath...
319
320
Watering-places: Cheltenham, Brighton, Buxton..
321
322
323
London.
324
Benefits derived by the Common People from the Progress of
Civilization...
392
Delusion which leads Men to overrate the Happiness of pre-
Speech of James the Second to the Privy Council...
411
Feelings of the Continental Governments toward England.. 430
Policy of the Court of Rome. . . .
432
Struggle in the Mind of James; Fluctuations of his Policy.. 435
Public Celebration of the Roman Catholic Rites in his Palace 437
Peculiar Favor shown to Roman Catholics and Quakers ... 472
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Characters of the Leading Refugees; Ayloffe; Wade...... 488
Arrangements for an Attempt on England and Scotland ... 503
Ineffectual Attempts of the Prince of Orange and of the
Encounter of the Rebels with the Militia at Bridport...... 535
Encounter of the Rebels with the Militia at Axminster .... 537