LONDON: PRINTED BY

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THE WORKS

OF

LORD MACAULAY

COMPLETE.

EDITED BY HIS SISTER LADY TREVELYAN.

IN EIGHT VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.

1873.

HARVARD

COLLEGE

OCT 17 1916

LIBRARY

Gift of William Farmweith

37-87

His Love of Danger: his bad Health

2

4

Coldness of his Manners and Strength of his Emotions; His

Friendship for Bentinck

7

Mary, Princess of Orange

10

Gilbert Burnet

11

He brings about a good Understanding between the Prince

and Princess

15

Relations between William and English Parties

16

His Feelings towards England; His Feelings towards Holland

and France

17

William rejects the Advice

His Policy consistent throughout

Treaty of Augsburg; William becomes the Head of the

English Opposition.

Mordaunt proposes to William a Descent on England

Discontent in England after the Fall of the Hydes; Conver-

21

24

25

26

Change in the Policy of the Court towards the Puritans

Letter to a Dissenter; Conduct of the Dissenters

Some of the Dissenters side with the Court; Care

Alsop; Rosewell; Lobb

Penn; The Majority of the Puritans are against the Court;

Baxter

Howe; Bunyan

Kiffin

The Prince and Princess of Orange hostile to the Declaration

of Indulgence

Their Views respecting the English Roman Catholics vindicated
Enmity of James to Burnet

Mission of Dykvelt to England; Negotiations of Dykvelt with
English Statesmen

Danby; Nottingham

Halifax

Devonshire

Edward Russell; Compton; Herbert

Churchill

Lady Churchill and the Princess Anne

Dykvelt returns to the Hague; with Letters from many emi-
nent Englishmen

Zulestein's Mission; Growing Enmity between James and

William

Influence of the Dutch Press; Correspondence of Stewart

and Fagel

Castelmaine's Embassy to Rome

CHAPTER VIII.

Consecration of the Nuncio at St. James's Palace; His public

Reception; The Duke of Somerset.

87

Election of the President; The Fellows of Magdalene cited

before the High Commission

103

Parker recommended as President; The Charterhouse

The Royal Progress.

The King at Oxford; He reprimands the Fellows of Magdalene

Penn attempts to mediate

104

105

107

108

111

112

114

115

116

117

Scheme of James and Tyrconnel for preventing the Princess

of Orange from succeeding to the Kingdom of Ireland . 119