ent
and expulsion.]

CONTINUATION

OF

THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND,

BY TOBIAS SMOLLETT, M.D.

Volume IIc, GEORGE I.

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GEORGE I.

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CHAPTER I.

GEORGE I.

_State of Parties in Great Britain..... King George
proclaimed..... The Civil List presennted to his Majesty by
the Parliament..... The Electoral Prince created Prince of
Wales..... The King arrives in England..... The Tories
totally excluded from the Royal Favour..... Pretender's
Manifesto..... New Parliament..... Substance of the King's
first Speech..... Lord Bolingbroke withdraws himself to
France..... Sir William Wyndham reprimanded by the
Speaker..... Committee of Secrecy..... Sir John Norris sent
with a Fleet to the Baltic..... Discontent of the
Nation..... Report of the Secret Committee..... Resolutions
to impeach Lord Bolingbroke, the Earl of Oxford, the Duke of
Or-mond, and the Earl of Strafford..... The Earl of Oxford
sent to the Tower..... The Proclamation Act..... The King
declares to both Houses that a Rebellion is begun..... The
Duke of Ormond and Lord Bolingbroke attainted..... Intrigues
of the Jacobites..... Death of Louis XIV..... The Earl of
Marsets up the Pretender's Standard in Scotland..... Divers
Members of the Lower House taken into custody..... The
Pretender proclaimed in the North of England by the Earl of
Derwentwater and Mr. Forster..... Mackintosh crosses the
Frith of Forth into Lothian and joins the English
Insurgents..... who are attacked at Preston, and surrender
at Discretion..... Battle at Dunblane..... The Pretender
arrives in Scotland..... He retires again to France.....
Proceedings of the Irish Parliament..... The Rebel Lords are
impeached, and plead Guilty..... The Earl of Derwentwater
and Lord Kenmuir are beheaded..... Trials of Rebels..... Act
for Septennial Parliaments..... Duke of Argyle
disgraced..... Triple Alliance between England, France, and
Holland..... Count Gyllenburgh, the Swedish Minister in
London, arrested..... Account of the Oxford Riot..... The
King demands an extra