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1713. Mutual animosity

Addresses to remove the Pretender from Lorraine...
Motion for a Repeal of the Union with Scotland ........

Sermons of Dr. Sacheverell ......................

Digression on the state of both Houses in this reign.

On the House of Lords..........

On the House of Commons

Advantage of the smaller boroughs.........

Scarcely any reports of the debates.........

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Nor lists of the divisions

Their place supplied by party pamphlets........................................ 67

Character of Swift .......

Violent measures of Bolingbroke against the press...
Concurred in by the House of Commons.........

Jacobite intrigues during the autumn...........

The Pretender is urged to renounce his religion...... 78

His refusal.................

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1714. And of Lord Finch................................

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Case of the Catalans..........

Address in their behalf from the Lords................ 102

Votes on the security of the Protestant Succession... 105

And against the Pretender............ ............... 107

The Envoy from Hanover demands the Prince's writ 109

Perplexity of Ministers..........

Resentment of the Queen.....................................

........ 110

Change of policy in the Whig party..................... 113

Lord Clarendon sent ambassador to Hanover....................... 114

Death of the Princess Sophia

The Schism Act..........

Speech of Stanhope.........

Lord Oxford's ambiguous conduct.....

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Machinations of the Jacobites............

A proclamation issued against the Pretender.......... 123

Divided state of the Ministry ......

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128

Project of the new Administration.......................

The Duke of Marlborough returns to England......... 130

The Queen's dangerous illness......

The Dukes of Somerset and Argyle appear in the

Council

Shrewsbury recommended as Lord Treasurer.....

And appointed by the Queen................................

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134

Measures to secure the Protestant Succession........................ 135

Parliament meets..............

Recognition of the new Government by Foreign

Character of George the First

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Debate on the Address.........

Intended prosecution of the late Ministers...........

Bolingbroke escapes to France.....

.... 176

178

The Committee of Secrecy...

Examination of Prior........

Report of the Committee..............

181

184

Bolingbroke, Oxford, and Ormond are impeached.... 186

Oxford is committed to the Tower...............

Impolicy of these acts of vengeance...................................... 192

Disturbances in the country...........

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Plans of the Jacobites abroad

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200

He becomes Secretary of State to the Pretender...... 203

His negotiations with the French Court.................. 205

Arrival of the Duke of Ormond.......

206

Death of Louis the Fourteenth..........

207

Altered views of the Government of France............ 208

Communications with England.........

210