The 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, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1816 - Great Britain |
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
Page xix
... Troops , and arrives in London Nov. 26 , where he finds that his Daughter the Princess ANNE of Denmark had also aban- doned her Father - 226 Colly Cibber in his Apology , ( 3d Ed . 1750. p . 57. ) as re- ferred to in a Note at page 227 ...
... Troops , and arrives in London Nov. 26 , where he finds that his Daughter the Princess ANNE of Denmark had also aban- doned her Father - 226 Colly Cibber in his Apology , ( 3d Ed . 1750. p . 57. ) as re- ferred to in a Note at page 227 ...
Page xxii
... Troops , I might not have been put to this extremity I am in , and would at least have had one blow for it " 249 250 Many of the Soldiers attached to the King disperse and return home 251 The King recals the Writs for assembling the ...
... Troops , I might not have been put to this extremity I am in , and would at least have had one blow for it " 249 250 Many of the Soldiers attached to the King disperse and return home 251 The King recals the Writs for assembling the ...
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... Troops as were ready to join the Marquis de Rosen , the Commander of the French Troops But in consequence of an express from the Duke of Berwick , JAMES returns to the Army and summons Londonderry , without effect , in consequence of ...
... Troops as were ready to join the Marquis de Rosen , the Commander of the French Troops But in consequence of an express from the Duke of Berwick , JAMES returns to the Army and summons Londonderry , without effect , in consequence of ...
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Page 671 - The hair was thick at the back part of the head, and, in appearance, nearly black. A portion of it, which has since been cleaned and dried, is of a beautiful dark brown colour.
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