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VOL. XXIII.

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Contains the latter Part of the Reign of King.
CHARLES II. and the entire Reign of King
JAMES II. Comprehending a Full and Impar-
tial Account of the Steps taken to bring about
the REVOLUTION; with the Debates
in the Convention-Parliament concerning the
ABDICATION and VACANCY of the THRONE,
and Remarks upon them.

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THE

CONTENTS

OF THE

Twenty-Third VOLUME.

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CHAP. I.

HE Trials of the Fefuits,

the Lord Stafford, and

others, for the Popish Plot,

and Godfrey's Murder.

Page 3, 53, 60, 77, 85, 90

The Debates in Parliament concerning the

Exclufion of the Duke of York from

the

the Crown, and the Expedients pro-

pofed in the room of it, with the va-

rious Practices of the Faction, to de-

Stroy the Duke 41, 43, 47, 62, 72,

79, 84, to 10 I

The Rebellion of the Scots, and the

Murder of the Archbishop of St.

Andrews

48, 52, 120

The Practices of the Duke of Monmouth

and the Lord Shaftsbury against the

Government 62, 67, 75; 97, 113,

124, 137, 139, 143, 182

The Difputes between the Court and the

Parliament, and between the Two

Houses of Parliament, concerning their

Jurifdiction and Privileges 45, 47,

69, 77, 82, to 104

The Rye-house Plot, to affaffinate King

Charles II. and the Duke of York,

and raife a Rebellion against the Go-

vernment; with the Trials of the

Confpirators

142, 148, 151,

155, 171, 178, 185, 192, 194

The

The Character of King Charles II. 209

The Statutes made in the Reign of King

Charles II.

CHAP. II.

224

The Acceffion of King James II.

237

Argyle's and Monmouth's Rebellions

249, 256

The Trials of the Rebels in the Weft of

England before the Lord Chief Ju-

ftice Jeffries and other Fudges 275

Debates in Parliament concerning Stand-

ing Armies in this Reign

283

King James's Attempts to establish Po-

pery and Arbitrary Power in the

Three Kingdoms; and the brave Op-

pofition made to thofe Attempts by

the Church of England 282 to

299, 302 to 308

The