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Title: History of the English People, Volume VII (of 8)
The Revolution, 1683-1760; Modern England, 1760-1767

Author: John Richard Green

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HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH PEOPLE

by

JOHN RICHARD GREEN, M.A.
Honorary Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford

VOLUME VII

THE REVOLUTION, 1683-1760. MODERN ENGLAND, 1760-1767

London
MacMillan and Co., Ltd.
New York: MacMillan & Co.
1896

First Edition 1879; Reprinted 1882, 1886, 1891.
Eversley Edition, 1896.

CONTENTS

BOOK VIII

THE REVOLUTION. 1683-1760

CHAPTER III
PAGE
THE FALL OF THE STUARTS. 1683-1714. 1

CHAPTER IV

THE HOUSE OF HANOVER. 1714-1760. 147

BOOK IX

MODERN ENGLAND. 1760-1815

CHAPTER I

ENGLAND AND ITS EMPIRE. 1760-1767. 273

CHAPTER III

THE FALL OF THE STUARTS

1683-1714

[Sidenote: The King's Triumph.]

In 1683 the Constitutional opposition which had held Charles so long in
check lay crushed at his feet. A weaker man might easily have been led
to play the mere tyrant b