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LIFE

OF

JAMES THE SECOND

KING OF ENGLAND, &c.

COLLECTED OUT OF MEMOIRS WRIT OF HIS OWN HAND.

TOGETHER WITH

THE KING'S ADVICE TO HIS SON,

AND

HIS MAJESTY'S WILL.

PUBLISHED FROM THE ORIGINAL STUART MANUSCRIPTS
IN CARLTON-HOUSE,

BY THE REV. J. S. CLARKE, LL.B. F.R.S.

HISTORIOGRAPHER TO THE KING, CHAPLAIN OF THE HOUSEHOLD,
AND LIBRARIAN TO THE PRINCE REGENT.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

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FOR PAYNE AND FOSS, AND BUDD and CALKEN, PALL-MALL.

DOM.SA

CONTENTS

OF

VOLUME THE SECOND.

TOME III. OF THE MS.

1685.

Page

THE Affliction which James II. experienced at the death of his Brother

1

23

5

6

7

ib. 8

Change in the public opinion respecting JAMES, which immediately took place

Speech of the King in Council on his accession

The King goes afterwards to Mass, with the Queen, in the little Chapel at St. James's, and orders the doors to be left open

Difficulty respecting the Funeral Obsequies of Charles II.
he having died a Roman Catholick

Zealous Congratulations from all parts to James II. on his
Accession

The King gives his attention to the Navy and to Commerce,
and to paying off gradually the debts of the Crown
His attention and kindness to his Friends

The King shews some papers of Charles II. respecting that
Monarch's change of Religion, to the Archbishop of
Canterbury

ib.