Volume 1

Memoirs of the Court of England from the Revolution in 1688 to the death of George the Second / by John Heneage Jesse.

  • John Heneage Jesse
Date:
1843
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Memoirs of the Court of England from the Revolution in 1688 to the death of George the Second / by John Heneage Jesse. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME. KING WILLIAM IIL. CHAPTER I. Preliminary remarks. — League of Utrecht formed by the Netherlands in 1579.—-Character and constitution of that League. —William of Nassau, first Prince of Orange, appointed its head by the title of Stadtholder. — His character. — His assassination in 1584.— His son, Prince Maurice, succeeds to the office of Stadtholder, and is successful against the Spaniards. — His death. —Succeeded by his younger brother, Henry Frederick. — Acknowledgment by Spain of the indepen- dence of the United Provinces. — Character of William the Second, fourth Stadtholder. — Abolition of that office.—Prince William Henry, son of William the Second, afterwards William the Third of England, born in 1650. — Nephew to Kings Charles the Second and James the Second. —His early studies. — Sir William Temple’s favourable opinion of his capacity. —- Visits England in his twentieth year, and is en- tertained by the University of Oxford. — Probable motives of his visit. — Entertaining anecdote. — Charles the Second’s distrust of William, and the latter’s politic conduct while in England. — League between France and England against the States of Holland. : 2 A ; Page | VOL. i. /
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