This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 Excerpt: ...England, Germany, and Holland against France, is signed at Vienna on the 12th of May. Sir Isaac Newton publishes his system of philosophy. 1687. King James sends the earl of Castlemaine as ambassador to Rome, offering to reconcile his people to the power of the Pope. James publishes a declaration for the liberty of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 Excerpt: ...England, Germany, and Holland against France, is signed at Vienna on the 12th of May. Sir Isaac Newton publishes his system of philosophy. 1687. King James sends the earl of Castlemaine as ambassador to Rome, offering to reconcile his people to the power of the Pope. James publishes a declaration for the liberty of conscience. He attempts to introduce four Roman Catholic priests into the University of Cambridge, and expels the Fellows of Magdalen College, Oxford, for refusing to admit a Roman Catholic as their president. Newton publishes his " Principia." 1688. James again publishes his declaration of conscience. The arch 1 Charles II. married Catherine of Braganza, but had no issue by her; he died in the Roman Catholic faith. 2 The battle of Sedge Moor was fought on the 5th of July. The duke of Monmouth, after being proclaimed king at Taunton, was totally defeated by the royal army. He was afterwards found in the disguise of a peasant lying at the bottom of a ditch, nearly exhausted with hunger and fatigue, when he was carried a prisoner to London, and beheaded on Tower Hill on the 15th of July. He was the natural son of Charles II. by Lucy Walters. s Goldsmith tells us that the military severities of the commanders were inferior to the legal slaughters committed by this judge, who was sent down to try the delinquents. He says the natural brutality of this man's temper was inflamed by continual intoxication; he would tell the prisoners if they would save him the trouble of trying them they might expect some favour, otherwise he would execute the law upon them with the utmost severity. bishop of Canterbury and six other bishops, refusing to read it in their churches, are committed to the Tower on the 8th of June, but are released on the 29th of th...
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