CHAPTER V.

WILLIAM.

Account of the Lancashire Plot..... The Commons inquire
into the Abuses which had crept into the Army..... They
expel and prosecute some of their own Members for Corruption
in the Affair of the East India Company..... Examination of
Cooke, Acton, and others..... The Commons impeach the Duke
of Leeds..... The Parliament is prorogued..... Session of
the Scottish Parliament..... They inquire into the Massacre
of Glencoe..... They pass an Act for erecting a Trading
Company to Africa and the Indies..... Proceedings in the
Parliament of Ireland..... Disposition of the Armies in
Flanders..... King William undertakes the Siege of
Namur..... Famous Retreat of Prince Vaudemont..... Brussels
is bombarded by Villeroy..... Progress of the Siege of
Namur..... Villeroy attempts to relieve it..... The
Besiegers make a desperate Assault..... The Place
capitulates..... Boufflers is arrested by order of King
William..... Campaign on the Rhine and in Hungary..... The
Duke of Savoy takes Casal..... Transactions in
Catalonia..... The English Fleet bombard’s St. Maloes and
other places on the Coast of France..... Wilmot’s expedition
to the West Indies..... A new Parliament..... They pass the
Bill for regulating Trials in Cases of High Treason.....
Resolutions with respect to the new Coinage..... The Commons
address the King to recall a Grant he had made to the Earl
of Portland..... Another against the new Scottish
Company..... Intrigues of the Jacobites..... Conspiracy
against the life of William..... Design of an Invasion
defeated..... The two Houses engage in an Association for
the Defence of his Majesty..... Establishment of a Land
Bank..... Trial of the Conspirators..... The Allies burn the
Magazine at Civet..... Louis the Fourteenth makes Advances
towards a Peace with Holland..... He detaches the Duke of
Savoy from the Confederacy..... Naval Transactions.....
Proceedings in the Parliaments of Scotland and Ireland.....
Zeal of the English Commons in their Affection to the
King..... Resolutions touching the Coin and the support of
Public Credit..... Enormous Impositions..... Sir John Fen-
wick is apprehended..... A Bill of Attainder being brought
into the House against him produces violent Debates..... His
Defence..... The Bill passes..... Sir John Fenwick is
beheaded..... The Earl of Monmouth sent to the Tower.....
Inquiry into Miscarriages by Sea..... Negotiations at
Ryswick..... The French take Barcelona..... Fruitless
Expedition of Admiral Neville to the West Indies..... The
Elector of Saxony is chosen King of Poland..... Peter the
Czar of Muscovy travels in Disguise with his own Ambassadors
..... Proceedings in the Congress at Ryswick..... The
Ambassadors of England, Spain, and Holland, sign the
Treaty..... A general Pacification.

WILLIAM, 1688—1701.