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CONTENTS.
| PAGE. | |
| Siege of Namur | 55 |
| Surrender of the Town of Namur | 59 |
| Surrender of the Castle of Namur | 64 |
| Arrest of Boultiers | 65 |
| Effect of the Emancipation of the English Press | 69 |
| Return of William to England: Dissolution of the Parliament | 74 |
| William makes a Progress through the Country | 76 |
| The Elections | 80 |
| Alarming State of the Currency | 85 |
| Meeting of the Parliament: Loyalty of the House of Commons | 100 |
| Controversy touching the Currency | 102 |
| Parliamentary Proceedings touching the Currency | 103 |
| Passing of the Act regulating Trials in Cases of High Treason | 106 |
| Parliamentary Proceedings touching the Grant of Crown Lands in Wales to Portland | 108 |
| Two Jacobite Plots formed | 110 |
| Berwick's Plot; the Assassination Plot. Sir George Barclay. | 111 |
| Failure of Berwick's Plot | 118 |
| Detection of the Assassination Plot | 120 |
| Parliamentary Proceedings touching the Assassination Plot | 126 |
| State of Public Feeling | 127 |
| Trial of Charnock, King, and Keyes | 129 |
| Execution of Charnock, King, and Keyes | 133 |
| Trial of Friend | 134 |
| Trial of Parkyns | 135 |
| Execution of Friend and Parkyns | 137 |
| Trials of Rookwood, Cranburne, and Lowick; The Association | 139 |
| Bill for the Regulation ot Elections | 144 |
| Act establishing a Land Bank | 147 |
| CHAPTER XXII. | |
| Military Operations in the Netherlands; Commercial Crisis in England | 150 |
| Financial Crisis | 154 |
| Efforts to restore the Currency | 158 |
| Distress of the People: their Temper and Conduct | 160 |
| Negotiations with France; The Duke of Savoy dessrts the Coalition | 163 |
