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ADDENDA AND CORRIGENDA.

Page 2. For the pluralists and their curates see Cardwell's Documentary Annals, vol. II. pp. 335, 336; and especially Prideaux's Draught of a Bill prepared to have been offered to the Parliament in the reign of King William and Queen Mary, A.D. 1691, with Reasons for the said Bill, Norwich, 1710.

Page 18, for Slemham read Glemham; and add, Sir Charles Leventhorp, Bart., and Dr. Hall, who was probably a Baronet, were in orders: the Rev. Dr. Gordon too was of noble family; and the Rev. N. Monk was son of Sir Thomas and brother of General Monk.-(Walker's Sufferings of the Clergy).

Page 49, add, the Rev. Dr. Stanley married Mary, second daughter of Sir F. Pemberton, Lord Chief Justice of Common Pleas and King's Bench.

INTRODUCTION.

THE object of the following pages is to enter upon such an examination of one portion of Mr. Macaulay's History of England, as may enable any person to form some kind of notion as to his general accuracy and merits as an historian.

Mr. Macaulay's work has been read with great interest; and no wonder, for a more attractive book was never written. But if in the midst of its merits, mistakes or exaggerated statements abound, he does a service to the public who puts them on their guard against believing as a matter of course the vivid representations of that entertaining writer.

I have therefore in the following pages considered Mr. Macaulay's account of the social condition of the Clergy about the time of the accession of James the Second, and have tried to take a purely historical view of it.

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ADDENDA AND CORRIGENDA.

Page 2. For the pluralists and their curates see Cardwell's Documentary Annals, vol. II. pp. 335, 336; and especially Prideaux's Draught of a Bill prepared to have been offered to the Parliament in the reign of King William and Queen Mary, A.D. 1691, with Reasons for the said Bill, Norwich, 1710.

Page 18, for Slemham read Glemham; and add, Sir Charles Leventhorp, Bart., and Dr. Hall, who was probably a Baronet, were in orders: the Rev. Dr. Gordon too was of noble family; and the Rev. N. Monk was son of Sir Thomas and brother of General Monk.-(Walker's Sufferings of the Clergy).

Page 49, add, the Rev. Dr. Stanley married Mary, second daughter of Sir F. Pemberton, Lord Chief Justice of Common Pleas and King's Bench.

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