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Tobias Smollett — The History of England
Tobias Smollett
The History of England
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER I.
GEORGE I.
STATE OF PARTIES.
KING GEORGE PROCLAIMED.
THE CIVIL LIST GRANTED TO THE KING.
THE ELECTORAL PRINCE CREATED PRINCE OF WALES.
THE KING ARRIVES IN ENGLAND.
THE TORIES TOTALLY EXCLUDED FROM THE ROYAL FAVOUR.
PRETENDER’S MANIFESTO.
NEW PARLIAMENT.
THE KING’S FIRST SPEECH.
COMMITTEE OF SECRECY.
SIR JOHN NORRIS SENT WITH A FLEET TO THE BALTIC.
DISCONTENT OF THE NATION.
REPORT OF THE SECRET COMMITTEE.
EARL OF OXFORD SENT TO THE TOWER.
THE KING DECLARES TO BOTH HOUSES THAT A REBELLION IS BEGUN.
DUKE OF ORMOND AND LORD BOLINGBROKE ATTAINTED.
INTRIGUES OF THE JACOBITES.
DEATH OF LOUIS XIV.
THE EARL OF MAR SETS UP THE PRETENDER’S STANDARD.
MACKINTOSH JOINS THE ENGLISH INSURGENTS.
BATTLE AT DUMBLANE.
THE PRETENDER ARRIVES IN SCOTLAND.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE IRISH PARLIAMENT.
THE REBEL LORDS ARE IMPEACHED.
EARL OF DEEWENTWATER AND LORD KENMUIR ARE BEHEADED.
TRIALS OF REBELS.
ACT FOR SEPTENNIAL PARLIAMENTS.
DUKE OF ARGYLE DISGRACED.
THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE.
COUNT GYLLENBURGH ARRESTED.
ACCOUNT OF THE OXFORD RIOT.
DIVISION IN THE MINISTRY.
THE COMMONS PASS THE SOUTH-SEA ACT, &c.
TRIAL OF THE EARL OF OXFORD.
PROCEEDINGS IN THE CONVOCATION WITH REGARD TO DR. HOADLEY.