THE

HISTORY OF ENGLAND,

FROM THE

INVASION OF JULIUS CÆSAR

ΤΟ

THE REVOLUTION IN 1688.

BY DAVID HUME, ESQ.

A NEW EDITION,

WITH THE AUTHOR'S LAST CORRECTIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS.

TO WHICH IS PREFIXED,

A SHORT ACCOUNT OF HIS LIFE, WRITTEN BY HIMSELF.

IN FIVE VOLUMES.

VOL. V.

LONDON:

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1864.

BODLEIS

EW.B. Nicholson
1912

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AND CHARING CROSS.

CONTENTS OF VOL. V.

CHAPTER LXI.

THE COMMONWEALTH.

Cromwell's Birth and private Life.

Protector.

- Peace with Holland.

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A new Parliament. Insurrection of the

Royalists. State of Europe. -War with Spain. - Jamaica conquered. Success

and Death of Admiral Blake. - - Domestic Administration of Cromwell. - Humble

Petition and Advice. - Dunkirk taken.- Sickness of the Protector. His Death

and Character

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CHAPTER LXII.

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Richard acknowledged Protector. A Parliament. - Cabal of Wallingford House. ·

Richard deposed. Long Parliament or Rump restored. Conspiracy of the

Royalists. Insurrection Suppressed. Parliament expelled. - Committee of

Safety. Foreign Affairs. General Monk. Monk declares for the Parliament.

- Parliament restored. — Monk enters London, and declares for a free Parliament.

- Secluded Members restored. Long Parliament dissolved. — New Parliament.

-The Restoration. - Manners and Arts

Settlement of the Revenue. Trial and

Execution of the Regicides. — Dissolution of the Convention Parliament. — Prelacy

restored. Insurrection of the Millenarians.

at the Savoy.—Arguments for and against a Comprehension. — A new Parliament.

-Bishops' Seats restored.

Dunkirk sold to the French. Declaration of Indulgence. - Decline of Clarendon's

-Rupture with France. Rupture with Denmark. - New Session.

of four Days.-Victory of the English. Fire of London. - Advances towards

Peace. Disgrace at Chatham. - Peace of Breda. - Clarendon's Fall, and Banish-

ment. -State of France. Character of Lewis XIV. - French Invasion of the

Low Countries. Negotiations. — Triple League. — Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle. —

Affairs of Scotland - and of Ireland ..