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CONTENTS.

It is cancelled, and the Test Act passed.

The Cabal dissolved.

Peace with the United Provinces; Administration of DanbyEmbarrassing Situation of the Country Party ....Dealings of that Parly with the French Embassy .

Peace of Nimeguen ; violent discontents in England

Fall of Danby; the Popish Plot.

First General Election of 1679 .

Violence of the new House of Commons.

Temple’s Plan of Government .......

Character of Halifax. .

Character of Sunderland . . ...

Prorogation of the Parliament.

Habeas Corpus Act.

Second General Election of 1679; Popularity of Monmouth .

Lawrence Hyde.

Sidney Godolphin.

Violence of Factions on the Subject of the Exclusion Bill

Names of Whig and Tory.

Meeting of Parliament.

The Exclusion Bill passes the Commons.

Exclusion Bill rejected by the Lords.

Execution of Stafford; General Election of 1681Parliament held at Oxford and dissolved; Tory Reaction

Persecution of the Whigs.

The Charter of the City confiscated; Whig ConspiraciesDetection of the Whig Conspiracies; Severity of the Government

Seizure of Charters.

Influence of the Duke of York .......

He is opposed by Halifax.

Lord Keeper Guildford.

Policy of Lewis.

State of Factions in the Court of Charles at the Time of his Death

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Great Change in the Slate of England since 1685 • . . ,

Population of England in 1685 .. , .

The Increase of Population greater in the North than in the

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Revenue in 1685 .

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