. The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands. atJeffreys knew he was recognized. He pretended to be seized with a fit ofcoughing, and turned his face toward the wall, still holding the beer m
. The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands. atJeffreys knew he was recognized. He pretended to be seized with a fit ofcoughing, and turned his face toward the wall, still holding the beer mug,ready to drink when his coughing should stop. But the man, knowing he wasnot mistaken, ran outside and told the mob that the chief of all wretches wasin their power. They swarmed in, seized him, and carried him before the LordMayor, who, in answer to the entreaty of Jeffreys, saved him from the mob bysending him to the Tower, where he died in 1689, his end hastened by hisdrunkenness. James II., being out of the kingdom, the situation was simpHfied. A Con- o82 The Story of the Greatest Nations vention, or Parliament, met and declared that James had broken the originalcontract between King and people, and that the throne as a consequence wasvacant. On the invitation of an assembly of peers and commoners, the Princeof Orange assumed charge of the government, and called a Convention of theEstates of the Realm, which assembled January 22, Thi Welcome or Wiluam of Oranok 1
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