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Prudence of Walpole
The Parliament meets ...
Walpole proposes his plan .........
1721. A secret Committee of Enquiry ...........
Violence against the South Sea Directors ....
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Angry debate in the Lords ....
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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.
The dog Harlequin
Arrest of Bishop Atterbury
His harsh treatment in the Tower.....
Meeting of Parliament......
Vote against the Pretender's Declaration
Tax on Roman Catholics.........
Compulsory oaths of allegiance
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Combination of Brewers at Edinburgh
1725. Prudent measures of Walpole and Lord Isla
Tranquillity restored among the Scots...........
Lord Chancellor Macclesfield impeached
Partial restoration of Lord Bolingbroke
Opposed by the ardent Whigs ....
And also by the ardent Jacobites ...
William Pulteney........................................
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Influence of Colonel Hay (Lord Inverness)............ 133
Quarrel between James and his Consort
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Failure of the Spaniards .....
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Dismissed from office .......
He takes refuge in the house of Mr. Stanhope
But is arrested
His escape from the Castle of Segovia..........
His adventures in England...............................
Goes to Marocco, and becomes a Bashaw
His death.....................
State of affairs in France
Character of Cardinal Fleury.......................
He becomes Prime Minister...........................................
Horace Walpole, ambassador at Paris .....
Death of the Czarina..........
Preparations for the siege of Gibraltar.....
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........
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His illness and death, on his journey.................. 165
Account of his Consort, Sophia-Dorothea of Zell...... 166
His Majesty's Will....
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