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CONTENTS.
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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 |