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HISTORY

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ENGLAND,

FROM THE

DESCENT of JULIUS CESAR,

TO THE

TREATY of AIX LA CHAPELLE, 1748.

Containing the TRANSACTIONS of

One Thousand Eight Hundred and Three Years.

By T. SMOLLETT, M. D.

THE THIRD EDITION.

VOLUME THE NINTH.

Non tamen pigebit vel incondita ac rudi voce memoriam prioris fervitutis, ac
teftimonium præfentium bonorum compofuiffe.

TACIT. Agricola.

AN

LONDON:

Printed for JAMES RIVINGTON and JAMES FLETCHER, at the
Oxford-Theatre; and R. BALDWIN, at the Rose, in Paternosler-row.

MDCCLIX.

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From the REVOLUTION to the Death of
queen ANNE.

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WILLIAM III.

bill, and

HE old Whig principle was not yet wholly A. C. 1692. expelled from the lower house. The un- An account due influence of the court was exerted in of the place. fuch an open fcandalous manner, as gave offence to that for trithe majority of the commons. In the midst of all enn al partheir condefcenfion, Sir Edward Huffey, member liaments. for Lincoln, brought in a bill touching free and impartial proceedings in parliament. It was intended to disable all members of parliament from enjoying places of trust and profit, and particularly levelled against the officers of the army and navy, who had infinuated themselves into the house in fuch numbers, that this was commonly called the officers parliament. The bill paffed the house of commons, and was fent up to the lords, by whom

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