The history of England, from the accession of James the Second . r^ r >/.: 7 MEDALS COMMEMORATING THE BATTLE OF LA HOGUE he should be more fortunate as an accuser of Jacobites than he hadbeen as an accuser of Puritans. He first addressed himself to was a horrible plot against their Majesties, a plot as deep ashell ; and some of the first men in England were concerned in , though he placed little confidence in information coming 2200 HISTORY OF ENGLAND chap, xvui from such a source, thought that llic italh w hich he had taken as aPriv\ CounciUor made it his chity


The history of England, from the accession of James the Second . r^ r >/.: 7 MEDALS COMMEMORATING THE BATTLE OF LA HOGUE he should be more fortunate as an accuser of Jacobites than he hadbeen as an accuser of Puritans. He first addressed himself to was a horrible plot against their Majesties, a plot as deep ashell ; and some of the first men in England were concerned in , though he placed little confidence in information coming 2200 HISTORY OF ENGLAND chap, xvui from such a source, thought that llic italh w hich he had taken as aPriv\ CounciUor made it his chity to incntitMi the subject to , after his fashion, treated the matter \er) hghtl}. I amconfident, he saiti, that this is a \-iihm) ; and 1 will have nobody dis-turbed on such grt)unds. After this rebuff, Young remained some timequiet. Hut when William was on the Continent, and when the nationwas agitated by the apprehension of a French invasion and of a Jacobiteinsurrection, a false accuser might hope to obtain a favourable mere oath of


Size: 2096px × 1193px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: ., bo, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, bookpublisherlondonmacmillan