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The King's favour towards the Roman Catholicks in Scotland disapproved of there—He resolves to prorogue the Parliament

Samuel Johnson punished for a Libel

67-69

The King takes great pains to view and discipline his
Army-A Camp formed during the Summer on Hounslow
The continued dissembling conduct of the Earl of Sunderland
By his advice, the King establishes a Secret Council
Its first resolution is to send Lord Castlemain to Rome
Lord Sunderland exerts his cunning, to induce the King to
ask for a Cardinal's hat for Father Petre, who contrary
to the Queen's advice had been made a Privy Coun-
cellor

Ill success of the Embassy to Rome

The King takes the Chapel of St. James's into his own
hands, and settles 14 Benedictin Monks there- The
Chapel at Whitehall left to the Protestants
Imprudent zeal of the King in building Chapels
Opinion of the Twelve Judges respecting the dispensing

Power

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71

72

74

75

76, 77 78

ib.

Resolution of the Judges respecting the King's Ecclesi-
astical Commission, which was granted August 3
The Archbishop of Canterbury refuses to act
The Bishop of London is suspended

The bad advice which the King had received and followed
A Neutrality is agreed on with the French in America

1687.

Lord Tyrconnel sent to succeed Lord Clarendon in Ireland
The first measures that were taken by Lord Tyrconnel
The Charters in Ireland called in

Lord Clarendon's dissatisfaction followed by that of his
brother, Lord Rochester, who is dismissed Jan. 5.
Lord Sunderland's duplicity towards Lord Rochester
The King grants by proclamation Liberty of Conscience
Remarks on that act

Liberty of Conscience published first in Scotland

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98

ib.

102

104

107

The King's Declaration in Council for the same in England
Remarks on the effect it produced

The Monks in St. James's wear their habits, and Sen. Ferdinando D'Adda, who had resided in a private capacity in England, is declared Nuncio, and consecrated Archbishop of Amasia, in the King's Chapel

The Duke of Somerset's firm conduct

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113

116

118

The dispute respecting Magdalen College, Oxford, April 11 119 The King's North-western Progress, August 16— Arrives

at Oxford, and Sept. 4th summons the Fellows of Magda-* len College to attend him

Motives of the King's conduct, and remarks upon it
The King appoints the Catholick Bishop Gifford President
of Magdalen College, Oxford

Dispute respecting the King's Mandate for Father Alban
Francis, a Benedictin monk, to be Master of Arts in
Cambridge

Sentence of deprivation passed, May 7th, on the Vice-
Chancellor of Cambridge

Dissatisfaction of the Nation

Arguments adduced to attempt to justify the King's conduct The jealousies and discontents which prevail heightened by the Queen's pregnancy

Intrigues of Lord Sunderland to be made Treasurer

1688.

The King recals his Troops out of Holland, March 14
Hostile disposition of the Dutch

Fagel publishes his opinion, or rather that of the Prince and
Princess of Orange, against repealing the Test

The King soon found, that his Clergy of all people could
the least bear with a Catholick Sovereign

Scarborough Address

The discontents of the people increase

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ib.

137

145

151

The King's reasons for wishing to repeal the Penal Laws, and Test

The Declaration for Liberty of Conscience ordered to be reprinted

Ordered to be read in the Churches

the King against its being done

Reply of the King

The Bishops address

ib.

Remarks on the conduct of the Bishops and the King in that transaction

The Bishops, in consequence of the Chancellor's advice, are summoned before the Council, June 9, and committed to the Tower

King James's acknowledgment of his error in acting as he
did, from the King's private notes

Contrived absence of the Princess Anne of Denmark
The Prince of Wales born, June 10

Sufficient testimony of the reality of his birth

The Prince of Orange sends Mons. Cappel with his congratu-
lations-Virulent spirit which prevailed on that occasion-
The young Prince is soon omitted to be prayed for, ac-
cording to form, in the Chapel of the Princess of Orange
Ill state of health of the Prince
young

Trial of the Seven Bishops, June 15.

The King heightens the dissatisfaction that prevails, not only by taking Catholicks into employment, but also by countenancing Presbyterians

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163

167

He begins to be disobeyed by the Army as well as the
Church

The Bishop of Durham still continues attached to the King,
and a great part of the Clergy of Chester, who "in all
submission became earnest intercessors to his Majesty, in
behalf of the Church of England, that the faults of those
and others might not be laid to their charge, in whose
communion there were many, and they hoped would be
more who concurred in promoteing the purposes of his
mild government"

The Bishop of Rochester sends a letter to his colleagues, desiring to be excused from sitting as a Commissioner of the Ecclesiastical Court

Lieut. Col. Beaumont tried and cashiered

Conduct of Lord Churchill

ib.

168

ib.

169

The Presbyterians join with the Church-party to oppose the
King

Designs of the Prince of Orange on the Crown of England
Formidable League against France projected by the House
of Austria between the Empire, the Kingdom of Spain,
and the States of Holland, into which the King is pressed

to enter

ib.

171

172

The King's reasons for refusing to enter into it
The Prince of Orange's able Diplomacy in making all
parties contribute to his designs
The King at length is persuaded, about the middle of
September, of the Prince of Orange's hostile intentions -
Steady opinion of Lord Dartmouth respecting that Prince

173

177

ib.

The King endeavours by his agents abroad to ascertain the reality of his suspicions His Ambassador at the Hague gives in a Memorial on the subject of the Dutch Armament to the States, Sept. 5.

Their Answer

The King of France orders his Ambassador at the Hague to
give in a spirited remonstrance, Sept. 9.
Conduct of Lord Sunderland

The rumour of a League with France proves injurious to the interests of James II.

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180

181

182

The King's neglect of all foreign assistance, proceeded from
his wish to confide his safety to his own subjects
Imprudence of the King, in sounding the opinions of the
leading men in the Country beforehand, respecting their
election of members, in regard to the Penal Laws and
Test, and Liberty of Conscience
The King's Proclamation, Sept. 21, respecting a legal
establishment of Liberty of Conscience, but still so as to
preserve inviolably the Church of England

The King's Proclamation, Sept. 28, declaring, that a great and sudden Invasion from Holland would speedily be made

183

ib.

The King, who had been willing to give his people the
satisfaction of seeing the Parliament assembled, recals
the writs for its assembling and increases his forces
The King's own account of his conduct at that critical
moment, from the 9th Volume of his MS. Memoirs,
shewing his sole object "was to make his Subjects a free,
rich, and glorious People"

The Duke of Grafton, Lord Churchill and others, had already taken their measures with the Prince of Orange