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CONTENTS.
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Terms of Peace between France and England settled | 239 |
Difficulties caused by Spain and the Emperor | 241 |
Attempts of James to prevent a general Pacification; The Treaty of Ryswick signed | 243 |
Anxiety in England; News of the Peace arrives in England | 244 |
Dismay of the Jacobites | 245 |
General Rejoicing; The King's Entry into London | 246 |
The Thanksgiving Day | 248 |
CHAPTER XXIII. | |
Standing Armies | 253 |
Sunderland; Lord Spencer | 255 |
Controversy touching Standing Armies | 258 |
Meeting of Parliament; The King's Speech well received; Debate on a Peace Establishment | 266 |
Sunderland attacked | 267 |
The Nation averse to a Standing Army | 271 |
Mutiny Act; The Navy | 273 |
Acts concerning High Treason | 274 |
Earl of Clancarty | 276 |
Ways and Means | 278 |
Rights of the Sovereign in reference to Crown Lands | 279 |
Proceedings in Parliament on Grants of Crown Lands | 281 |
Montague accused of Peculation | 282 |
Bill of Pains and Penalties against Duncombe | 286 |
Dissension between the Houses | 293 |
Commercial Questions | 294 |
Irish Manufactures | 297 |
East India Companies | 302 |
Fire at Whitehall | 308 |
Visit of the Czar | 310 |
Portland's Embassy to France | 318 |
The Spanish Succession | 329 |
The Count of Tallard's Embassy | 343 |
Newmarket Meeting: the insecure State of the Roads | 345 |
Further Negotiations relating to the Spanish Succession | 346 |
The King goes to Holland | 349 |
Portland returns from his Embassy | 350 |
William is reconciled to Marlborough | 351 |