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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 |