CHAPTER XV

The Parliament meets; Retirement of Halifax

Supplies voted

The Bill of Rights passed

Inquiry into Naval Abuses

Inquiry into the Conduct of the Irish War

Reception of Walker in England

Edmund Ludlow

Violence of the Whigs

Impeachments

Committee of Murder

Malevolence of John Hampden

The Corporation Bill

Debates on the Indemnity Bill

Case of Sir Robert Sawyer

The King purposes to retire to Holland

He is induced to change his Intention; the Whigs oppose his going to Ireland

He prorogues the Parliament

Joy of the Tories

Dissolution and General Election

Changes in the Executive Departments

Caermarthen Chief Minister

Sir John Lowther

Rise and Progress of Parliamentary Corruption in England

Sir John Trevor

Godolphin retires; Changes at the Admiralty

Changes in the Commissions of Lieutenancy

Temper of the Whigs; Dealings of some Whigs with Saint Germains;

Shrewsbury; Ferguson

Hopes of the Jacobites

Meeting of the new Parliament; Settlement of the Revenue

Provision for the Princess of Denmark

Bill declaring the Acts of the preceding Parliament valid

Debate on the Changes in the Lieutenancy of London

Abjuration Bill

Act of Grace

The Parliament prorogued; Preparations for the first War

Administration of James at Dublin

An auxiliary Force sent from France to Ireland

Plan of the English Jacobites; Clarendon, Aylesbury, Dartmouth

Penn

Preston

The Jacobites betrayed by Fuller

Crone arrested

Difficulties of William

Conduct of Shrewsbury

The Council of Nine

Conduct of Clarendon

Penn held to Bail

Interview between William and Burnet; William sets out for Ireland

Trial of Crone

Danger of Invasion and Insurrection; Tourville's Fleet in the

Channel

Arrests of suspected Persons

Torrington ordered to give Battle to Tourville

Battle of Beachy Head

Alarm in London; Battle of Fleurus

Spirit of the Nation

Conduct of Shrewsbury

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