THE CONTINUATION OF Mr. RAPIN's HISTORY OF ENGLAND; From the REVOLUTION to the By N. TIN DA L, M. A. ILLUSTRATED WITH MAPS, GENEALOGICAL TABLES, and the HEADS The FIFTH EDITION, corrected. VOL. XIV. II of CONTINUATION. LONDON: Printed, by Affignment from Mr. KNAPTON, for T. OSBORNE, H. WOODFALL, W. STRAHAN, J. RIVINGTON, M DCC LXI. THE HISTORY O F ENGLAND. BOOK XXVI. From the Year 1692 to the Year 1700. CHAP. I. Battle of Steenkirk.-Grandval's plot to kill the king. Affairs in Germany-Hungary-Piedmont.-Hanover made an electorate.-Earthquake.-Young's Plot.Affairs of Scotland.-Parliament meets-their proceedings-Remarks on them. T HE queen was no fooner informed of the victory, 1602. but the fent thirty thousand pounds to Portfmouth, to be diftributed among the failors; ordered medals A dekent to be ftruck for tokens of honour to the officers, projected and caused the bodies of admiral Carter and colonel Haftings into France. to be honourably interred. At the fame time a defcent in:o France was projected, and about feven thousand men, that were encamped near Portfmouth, were fhipped there, under the command of the duke of Leinfter, who embarked on the A 2 Breda. Burret. Burchet. 216706 |