A Handbook of English History; Based on the Lectures of the Late M. J. Guest and Brought Down to the Year 1880

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894. Excerpt: ... 1679 New Parliament meets. Habeas Corpus Act passed. Exclusion Bill introduced. Parliament dissolved. Shaftesbury dismissed. 1680 Committee for agitation formed. Monmouth pretends to the throne. Petitioners and Abhorrers. Exclusion Bill thrown out by the Lords. Trial of Lord Stafford. 1681 Parliament at Oxford. Limitation Bill rejected. Monmouth and Shaftesbury arrested. 1682 Conspiracy and flight of Shaftesbury. Rye-house Plot. 1683 Death of Shaftesbury. Lord Russell and Algernon Sidney executed. 1684 Town charters quashed. Army increased. 1685 James the Second, died 1701 Insurrection of Argyle and Monmouth. Battle of Sedgemoor, July 6. The Bloody Circuit. 1685 Army raised to 20000 men. Revocation of Edict of Nantes. 1686 Parliament refuses to repeal Test Act. Test Act dispensed with by Royal authority. Ecclesiastical Commission set up. 1687 Newton's Principia.' Expulsion of the Fellows of Magda-len. Dismissal of Lords Rochester and Clarendon. Declaration of Indulgence. The boroughs regulated. William of Orange protests against the Declaration. Tyrconnell made Lord Deputy in Ireland. 1688 Clergy refuse to read Declaration ot Indulgence. Threat of the Seven Bishops. Irish troops brought over to England. Lewis attacks Germany. William of Orange lands at Torbay. Flight of James. MODERN ENGLAND. 1689--1885. 1689 Convention Parliament. Declaration of Rights. William and Mary made King and Queen. William forms the Grand Alliance against Lewis. Battle of Killiecrankie, ./ 27. Siege of Londonderry. Mutiny Bill. Toleration Bill. Bill of Rights. Secession of the Nonjurors. 1690 Abjuration Bill and Act of Grace. Battle of Beachy Head./-- 29. Battle of the Boyne, /-/y 6. William repulsed from Limerick. 1691 Battle of Aughrim, /-/x. Capitulat...