The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol. I., Part F. From Charles II. to James II.

{1668.} Since the restoration, England had attained a situation which had never been experienced in any former period of her government, and which seemed the only one that could...

{1688.} While every motive, civil and religious, concurred to alienate from the king every rank and denomination of men, it might be expected that his throne would, without dela...

{1674.} IF we consider the projects of the famous cabal, it will appear hard to determine, whether the end which those ministers pursued were more blamable and pernicious, or th...

{1685.} THE first act of James’s reign was to assemble the privy council; where, after some praises bestowed on the memory of his predecessor, he made professions of his resolut...

{1678.} THE English nation, ever since the fatal league with France, had entertained violent jealousies against the court; and the subsequent measures adopted by the king had te...

{1664.} The next session of parliament discovered a continuance of the same principles which had prevailed in all the foregoing. Monarchy and the church were still the objects o...

{1681.} When the cabal entered into the mysterious alliance with France, they took care to remove the duke of Ormond from the committee of foreign affairs; and nothing tended fu...

{1660.} CHARLES II., when he ascended the throne of his ancestors, was thirty years of age. He possessed a vigorous constitution, a fine shape, a manly figure, a graceful air; a...

{1679.} The king, observing that the whole nation concurred at first in the belief and prosecution of the Popish plot, had found it necessary for his own safety to pretend, in a...