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CONTENTS.
CHAPTER XI.
Page
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1720. Review of Stanhope's administration
Accession of Walpole and Townshend
The South Sea Company ............
Competition with the Bank
Passing of the South Sea Bill............................
Rage for speculation at this period.........
Mr. Law and his system, at Paris......
Quarrel between him and Lord Stair ........
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1722. Dissolution of Parliament
Death of Lord Sunderland
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And of the Duke of Marlborough .......................
Walpole left undisputed Prime Minister
CHAPTER XII.
Birth of Prince Charles Stuart
Hopes of the Jacobites in England .....
Their Council of Five............
Atterbury, Bishop of Rochester............
Plot to seize the Tower and the Bank ...
Discovered by the Government .............................
Layer, Plunkett, and others, taken into custody...
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Vote against the Pretender's Declaration
Tax on Roman Catholics.....
Compulsory oaths of allegiance
1723. Charge against Earl Cowper
His death and character...
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CHAPTER XIII.
Affair of Wood's Patent .....
Dissatisfaction in Ireland
Exertions of Swift .........
The Drapier's Letters
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The popular ferment increases ....................................................................................... 98
Arrival of Lord Carteret........
His ineffectual measures
The Government is compelled to yield..
The Malt Tax in Scotland
Tumult at Glasgow .......
1725. Prudent measures of Walpole and Lord Isla
Tranquillity restored among the Scots..................
Lord Chancellor Macclesfield impeached
Partial restoration of Lord Bolingbroke
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105
Resentment of the King and Queen of Spain ......... 119
Conclusion of the Treaty of Vienna ....
Counter-Alliance at Hanover
Clamours of the Opposition..............
First rivalry of Walpole and Townshend
Influence of Colonel Hay (Lord Inverness)................................ 133
Quarrel between James and his Consort
134
Preliminaries of Peace signed at Paris .................. 161
Intrigues of Bolingbroke with the Duchess of Kendal 162
His interview with the King........................
The King sets out for Hanover............
.... 163
... 164
His illness and death, on his journey.................. 165
Account of his Consort, Sophia-Dorothea of Zell...... 166
His Majesty's Will.....
168