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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1855. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXIII. Spain accedes to the Treaty of Peace--Parliament meets--Opposition slack --Pulteney goes abroad --Bolingbroke flies--Attacks on the Church in Parliament--Repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts--Mortmain Bill --The Quakers' Tithe Bill--Opposition of the Bishops and Clergy to the latter--Lord Hervey's zeal for it--Complains of the abuses of Queen Anne's Bounty--Bishops Sherlock and Butts--The King's indecent impatience to end these questions, and to go to Hanover--Bishop Sherlock complains to the Queen of Lord Hervey--The Queen rebukes him--Affairs of the Church--Candidates for Lambeth--Lord Hervey suggests Potter. Before the Parliament met [15 DEGREES January, 1736], the news came of Spain's accepting the preliminary articles; and as this took away the only poor little shadow of pretence for keeping up the same number of troops that were maintained last year, the Court was forced to consent to a reduction, and bring in the estimate for the army this year just upon the same foot it had been before the 8000 men were added that had been raised in consequence of the vote of credit. The King's speech required more address than usual this year in the penning of it, as it was to be conceived in such terms as were modestly to intimate to his Parliament and people that the whole merit of making this peace belonged to him and his Ministers; and yet was not to do this so plainly as to give the lie to what the Court of England had declared at the Court of Spain, or to incur the ridicule which must have attended this piece of arrogance in every other country in which this speech would be read. This fortunate event of the peace made the opposition to the measures of the Court this session very languid. Lord Bolingbroke's1 going out of England on account of th...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781151028884
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 168
  • Spine Width: 9 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1151028886
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 313 gr


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