CHAPTER IV.

False Information against the Earl of Marlborough, the
Bishop of Rochester, and others..... Sources of National
Discontent..... Dissension between the Queen and the
Prince’s Anne of Denmark..... The House of Lords vindicate
their Privileges in behalf of their imprisoned Members.....
The Commons present Addresses to The King and Queen.....
They acquit Admiral Russel, and resolve to advise his
Majesty..... They comply with all the Demands of the
Ministry..... The Lords present an Address of Advice to the
King..... The Dispute between the Lords and Commons
concerning Admiral Russel..... The Commons address the
King..... They establish the Land tax and other
Impositions..... Burnet’s Pastoral Letter burned by the
Hangman..... Proceedings of the Lower House against the
Practice of kidnapping Men for the Service..... The two
Houses address the King on the Grievances of Ireland .....
An Account of the Place-bill, and that for triennial
Parliaments..... The Commons petition his Majesty that he
would dissolve the East India Company..... Trial of Lord
Mohan for Murder..... Alterations in the Ministry..... The
king repairs to the Continent, and assembles the Confederate
Army in Flanders..... The French reduce Huy..... Luxembourg
resolves to attack the Allies..... who are defeated at
Landen..... Charleroy is besieged and taken by the
Enemy..... Campaign on the Rhine..... The Duke of Savoy is
defeated bv Catinat in the Plain of Marsaglia.....
Transactions in Hungary and Catalonia..... Naval
Affairs..... A Fleet of Merchant Ships under Convoy of Sir
George Rooke attacked, and partly destroyed by the French
Squadrons ..... Wheeler’s Expedition to the West Indies.....
Benbow bombards St. Maloes..... The French King has recourse
to the Mediation of Denmark..... Severity of the Government
against the Jacobites..... Complaisance of the Scottish
Parliament..... The King returns to England, makes some
Changes in the Ministry, and opens the Session of
Parliament..... Both Houses inquire into the Miscarriages by
Sea..... The Commons grant a vast Sum for the Services of
the ensuing Year..... The King rejects the Bill against free
and impartial Proceedings in Parliament; and the Lower House
remonstrates on this Subject..... Establishment of the Bank
of England..... The East India Company obtain a now
Charter..... Bill for a general Naturalization dropped.....
Sir Francis Wheeler perishes in a Storm..... The English
attempt to make a Descent in Camaret Bay, but are repulsed
with Loss..... They bombard Dieppe, Havre-de-Grace, Dunkirk,
and Calais..... Admiral Russel sails for the Mediterranean,
relieves Barcelona, and winters at Cadiz..... Campaign in
Flanders..... The Allies reduce Huy..... The Prince of Baden
passes the Rhine, but is obliged to repass that River.....
Operations in Hungary..... Progress of the French in
Catalonia..... State of the War in Piedmont..... The King
returns to England..... The Parliament meets..... The Bill
for Triennial Parliaments receives the Royal Assent.....
Death of Archbishop Tillotson and of Queen Mary.....
Reconciliation between the King and the Princess of
Denmark.

WILLIAM AND MARY, 1688—1701.