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CONTENTS.
| PAGE. | |
| Peace with the United Provinces; Administration of Danby | 209 |
| Embarrassing Situation of the Country Party | 211 |
| Dealings of that Party with the French Embassy | 213 |
| Peace of Nimeguen | 213 |
| Violent Discontents in England | 214 |
| Fall of Danby; the Popish Plot | 216 |
| Violence of the new House of Commons | 221 |
| Temple's Plan of Government | 223 |
| Character of Halifax | 225 |
| Character of Sunderland | 228 |
| Prorogation of the Parliament; Habeas Corpus Act; Second General Election of 1679 | 230 |
| Popularity of Monmouth | 231 |
| Lawrence Hyde | 235 |
| Sidney Godolphin | 236 |
| Violence of Factions on the Subject of the Exclusion Bill | 237 |
| Names of Whig and Tory | 238 |
| Meeting of Parliament; The Exclusion Bill passes the Commons; Exclusion Bill rejected by the Lords | 239 |
| Execution of Stafford; General Election of 1681 | 240 |
| Parliament held at Oxford, and dissolved | 241 |
| Tory Reaction | 242 |
| Persecution of the Whigs | 244 |
| Charter of the City confiscated; Whig Conspiracies | 245 |
| Detection of the Whig Conspiracies | 247 |
| Severity of the Government; Seizure of Charters | 248 |
| Influence of the Duke of York | 250 |
| He is opposed by Halifax | 251 |
| Lord Guildford | 252 |
| Policy of Lewis | 254 |
| State of Factions in the Court of Charles at the time of his Death | 256 |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| Great Change in the State of England since 1685 | 257 |
| Population of England in 1655 | 259 |
| Increase of Population greater in the North than in the South | 261 |
| Revenue in 1685 | 264 |
| Military System | 266 |
| The Navy | 273 |
