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great parties, Whigs and Tories, were nearly equal, and alternately triumphant. Steele was prevailed upon to write "The Crisis," in support of the House of Hanover. The law part of the tract was put together by William Moore of the Inner Temple, and the whole was corrected by Addison, Hoadly, and others of the Whig party.

In March, 1714, it fell under the cognizance of the House of Commons; the motion of John Hungerford, Esq. complaining of it as reflecting on her Majesty's administration and government, was seconded by Foley, Harley, and Wyndham.

Steele was defended by Robert and Horatio Walpole, Lord Finch, Lord Lumley and Lord Hinchingbrook after a warm debate, the author was expelled the House, by a majority of 93, and the pamphlet deemed a scandalous and seditious libel. It was attacked with great ability in the following article, viz.

CCCCXVII.

J. SWIFT.-1714.

The Publick Spirit of the Whigs; set forth in their generous encouragement of the Author of The Crisis; with some observations on the Seasonableness, Candor, Erudition, and Style of that Treatise.

London: printed for John Morphew, near Stationers' Hall. 1714. 4to. pp. 45.

This sarcastic performance is attributed to the joint efforts of Lord Bolingbroke and Dean Swift. The publisher, John Morphew, was taken into custody by order of the House of Lords, and a reward of 3001. offered for discovering the author, notwithstanding which he remained safe from all detection.

CCCCXVIII.

A. COLLINS.-1714.

The Peerage of England, &c. vide Art. 389. In two parts. The Third Edition, corrected and very much enlarged with many valuable Memoirs, never before printed: To which is also added, a General Index of the several Families

of Great Britain and Ireland, &c. allied by marriage, or intermarriage, to the Noble Families mentioned in this Work.

London: printed by E. J. for Abel Roper and Arthur Collins, &c. 1714. 8vo.

The title is printed partly in red. The work was printed again in 1715, and then called the third edition, “with an account of those Families advanced by his present Majesty King George." title to this last edition is wholly in black.

CCCCXIX.

1714.

The

The Laws of Honour; or a Compendious Account of the ancient Derivation of all Titles, Dignities, Offices, &c. as well Spiritual as Temporal, Civil or Military. Shewing the Prerogative of the Crown, Privileges of Peerage and of Parliament, the true Rank and Precedency of all dignified Persons, the most memorable Debates and Cases of Parliament upon claim of Honours, Precedency, or otherwise, with a compleat and useful Table of the Nobility, setting forth their ancient and present Honours, Offices, Employments, Creations, Successions, Consecrations, &c. The whole illustrated with proper Sculptures, engraved on Copper-plates. To which is added, an exact List of Officers, Civil and Military, in Great Britain, as they properly and distinctly fall under the supream Officers of the Kingdom, or are any way remarkable in the dispatch of Publick Business.

London: printed for R. Gosling, at the Mitre and Crown, against

St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-Street. 1714. 8vo. pp. 440.

This book, which is well written, contains in a small compass much useful information upon the subjects expressed in the title. It is dedicated to Anthony Earl of Harold, &c. after which is a copious Table of Contents, and Introduction, pp. 12. After page 440, where the work concludes, is an Appendix, "Alterations that have accrued since this book was in the press," and "An Original Letter from the Lord Hunsdon to King James I. of the Antiquity, Use, and Honour of the Band of Gentlemen Pensioners."

As a frontispiece is a head of Queen Anne, round which are six representations of the various degrees of Nobility, engraved by M. Vander Gucht; and at p. 1, a full-length portrait of Prince George, Duke of Hanover, Elector of the Holy Roman Empire, &c. The book was republished in 1726.

CCCCXX.

W. JACKSON.-1714.

The Arms, or Common Seals, of all ye Cities and Borough Towns in England and Wales, with a brief Account, as far as could be procured, of their Foundation, Government, &c. and to supply the vacancy of those Towns that have no Arms, the first and last letter of the Towns' Names are put in a Cypher. The Arms herein contained are according to the Seals sent with the Returns into the Office of the Clerk of the Crown, and other authentick evidences.

Printed for and sold by William Jackson in Russell-Court, in Covent Garden, where may be had the Arms of the Episcopal Sees and Deaneries, and the Two Universities. Cum privilegio Reginæ. 1714.

This set of well-executed engravings consists of four folio sheets, 27 inches by 20 in size, each containing 54 coats, besides the arms of the person to whom they are severally dedicated.

CCCCXXI.

1714.

The Earl Marshal's Order relating to the Solemn Interment of her late Majesty Queen Anne.

London. Printed in 1714. Folio.

Her Majesty died on Sunday morning, 1st August, 1714, in the 50th year of her age, and 13th of her reign. There had been a vault made at the east end of the south side of Henry VII.'s Chapel, Westminster, to deposit the body of King Charles II. in which the Prince, Queen Mary, King William III. and Prince George of Denmark, were laid: here the remains of Queen Anne were likewise deposited, and there being no more room left, the vault was closed with brick-work.

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REIGN OF KING GEORGE I.-1714-1727.

CCCCXXII.

1714.

A Ceremonial for the Reception of His Most Sacred Majesty George, by the Grace of God King of Great Britain, &c. upon his arrival from Holland to his Kingdom of Great Britain.

Printed in the year 1714. Folio.

This Ceremonial was published by the Earl of Suffolk, Deputy Earl Marshal.

On 18th September the King landed with the Prince his son at Greenwich, and on the 20th they made their public entry through the City to St. James's. The Coronation took place on the 20th of October, 1714.

CCCCXXIII.

J. DISNEY.-1714.

The Genealogy of the Most Serene and Most Illustrious House of Brunswick and Lunen

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