d,
and Somers, and general Stanhope. The regency had already removed sir
Constantine Phipps and the archbishop of Armagh from the office of
lords-justices in Ireland, and filled their places in the regency of
that kingdom with the archbishop of Dublin and tire earl of Kildare.
Allan Broderick was appointed chancellor; another privy-council was
formed, and the duke of Ormond was named as one of the members. The
treasury and admiralty were put into commission; all the governments
were changed; and, in a word, the whole nation was delivered into the
hands of the whigs. At the same time the prince-royal was declared
prince of Wales, and took his place in council. The king was
congratulated on his accession in addresses from the two universities,
and from all the cities and corporations in the kingdom. He expressed
particular satisfaction at these expressions of loyalty and affection.
He declared in council his firm purpose to support and maintain the
churches of England and Scotland as they were by law established; an aim
which he imagined might be effectually accomplished, without impairing
the toleration allowed by law to protestant dissenters, and so necessary
to the trade and riches of the kingdom; he, moreover, assured them he
would earnestly endeavour to render property secure; the good effects of
which were no where so clearly seen as in this happy nation. Before the
coronation he created some new peers, and others were promoted to higher
titles.* On the twentieth day of October he was crowned in Westminster
with the usual solemnity, at which the earl of Oxford and lord
Bolingbroke assisted.**

* James lord Chandos, was created earl of Carnarvon; Lewis
lord Kockingham, earl of that name; Charles lord Ossulton,
earl of Tankerville; Charles lord Halifax, earl of Halifax;
Heneage lord Guernsey, earl of Aylesford; John lord Hervey,
earl of Bristol; Thomas lord Pelham, earl of Clare; Henry
earl of Thommond, in Ireland, viscount Tadcaster; James
viscount Castleton, in Ireland, baron Sanderson; Bennet lord
Sherrard, in Ireland, baron of Har-borough; Gervase lord
Pierrepont, in Ireland, baron Pierrepont in the county of
Bucks; Henry Boyle, baron of Carleton in the county of
York; sir Richard Temple, baron of Cobham; Henry lord Paget,
earl of Uxbridge.

** In the month of October the princess of Wales arrived in
England with her two eldest daughters, the