YI CONTENTS OF VOLUME VI.

Pago

Limerick defended by the Irish alone.53

Sarsfield surprises the English artillery ...... 55

Arrival of Baldearg O'Donnel at Limerick.57

The besiegers suffer from the rains.59

Unsuccessful assault on Limerick. The siege raised ... 60

Tyrconnel and Lauzun go to France.62

William returns to England. tb»

Reception of William in England. ib.

Expedition to the South of Ireland.63

Marlborough takes Cork . •.65

Marlborough takes Kinsale.66

Affairs of Scotland.67

Intrigues of Montgomery with the Jacobites. ib.

War in the Highlands.69

Fort William built.70

Meeting of the Scottish Parliament.71

Melville Lord High Commissioner . 72

The government obtains a majority.tb.

Ecclesiastical legislation.74

The coalition between the Club and the Jacobites dissolved . . 81

The chiefs of the Club betray each other.83

General acquiescence in the new ecclesiastical polity ... 86

Complaints of the Episcopalians.87

The Presbyterian nonjurors.89

William dissatisfied with the ecclesiastical arrangements in Scot-land .93

Meeting of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland . . ib.

State of affairs on the Continent.95

The Duke of Savoy joins the coalition. ib.

Supplies voted.97

Ways and Means.98

Proceedings against Torrington.100

Torrington’s trial and acquittal.302

Animosity of the Whigs against Caermarthen.103

A Jacobite plot.106

Meeting of the leading conspirators.107

The conspirators determine to send Preston to Saint Germains . 109

Papers entrusted to Preston. ib.

Information of the plot given to Caermarthen.112

Arrest of Preston and his companions. ib.

CHAPTER XVII.

William’s voyage to Holland.115

William’s entrance into the Hague.117

Congress at the Hague.120

William his own minister of foreign affairs.122