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CONTENTS.
| PAGE. | |
| Wages of Manufacturers | 378 |
| Labour of Children in Factories | 379 |
| Wages of different Classes of Artisans | 380 |
| Number of Paupers | 381 |
| Benefits derived by the Common People from the Progress of Civilisation | 382 |
| Delusion which leads Men to overrate the Happiness of preceding Generations | 385 |
| CHAPTER IV. | |
| Death of Charles II. | 387 |
| Suspicions of Poison | 398 |
| Speech of James II. to the Privy Council | 400 |
| James proclaimed | 401 |
| State of the Administration | 402 |
| New Arrangements | 404 |
| Sir George Jeffreys | 406 |
| The Revenue collected without an Act of Parliament | 410 |
| A Parliament called | 411 |
| Transactions between James and the French King | 412 |
| Churchill sent Ambassador to France; His History | 415 |
| Feelings of the Continental Governments towards England | 418 |
| Policy of the Court of Rome | 420 |
| Struggle in the Mind of James; Fluctuations in his Policy | 423 |
| Public Celebration of the Roman Catholic Rites in the Palace | 425 |
| His Coronation | 427 |
| Enthusiasm of the Tories; Addresses | 430 |
| The Elections | 431 |
| Proceedings against Oates | 435 |
| Proceedings against Dangerfield | 440 |
| Proceedings against Baxter | 442 |
| Meeting of the Parliament of Scotland | 446 |
| Feeling of James towards the Puritans | 447 |
| Cruel Treatment of the Scotch Covenanters | 449 |
| Feeling of James towards the Quakers | 453 |
| William Penn | 455 |
| Peculiar Favour shown to Roman Catholics and Quakers | 458 |
| Meeting of the English Parliament; Trevor chosen Speaker; Character of Seymour | 461 |
| The King's Speech to the Parliament | 463 |
