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CONTENTS



CHAPTER XXI.
PAGE.
Effect of Mary's Death on the Continent 13
Death of Luxemburg 14
Distress of William; Parliamentary Proceedings: Emancipation of the press 15
Death of Halifax 18
Parliamentary Enquiries into the Corruption of the Public Offices 20
Vote of Censure on the Speaker 24
Foley elected Speaker, Enquiry into the Accounts of the East India Company 25
Suspicious Dealings of Seymour 26
Bill against Sir Thomas Cook 27
Enquiry by a joint Committee of Lords and Commons 28
Impeachment of Leeds 30
Disgrace of Leeds 34
Lords Justices appointed; Reconciliation between William and the Princess Anne 35
Jacobite Plots against William's Person 38
Charnock 40
Porter; Goodman; Parkyns 41
Fenwick 42
Session of the Scottish Parliament; Inquiry into the Slaughter of Glencoe 42
War in the Netherlands: Marshal Villeroy 51
The Duke of Maine 52
Jacobite Plots against the Government during William's Absence 54