Chapter 5 No.5

Effect of Mary's Death on the Continent

Death of Luxemburg

Distress of William

Parliamentary Proceedings; Emancipation of the Press

Death of Halifax

Parliamentary Inquiries into the Corruption of the Public Offices

Vote of Censure on the Speaker

Foley elected Speaker; Inquiry into the Accounts of the East India Company

Suspicious Dealings of Seymour

Bill against Sir Thomas Cook

Inquiry by a joint Committee of Lords and Commons

Impeachment of Leeds

Disgrace of Leeds

Lords Justices appointed; Reconciliation between William and the Princess Anne

Jacobite Plots against William's Person

Charnock; Porter

Goodman; Parkyns

Fenwick

Session of the Scottish Parliament; Inquiry into the Slaughter of Glencoe

War in the Netherlands; Marshal Villeroy

The Duke of Maine

Jacobite Plots against the Government during William's Absence

Siege of Namur

Surrender of the Town of Namur

Surrender of the Castle of Namur

Arrest of Boufflers

Effect of the Emancipation of the English Press

Return of William to England; Dissolution of the Parliament

William makes a Progress through the Country

The Elections

Alarming State of the Currency

Meeting of the Parliament; Loyalty of the House of Commons

Controversy touching the Currency

Parliamentary Proceedings touching the Currency

Passing of the Act regulating Trials in Cases of High Treason

Parliamentary Proceedings touching the Grant of Crown Lands in Wales to Portland

Two Jacobite Plots formed

Berwick's Plot; the Assassination Plot; Sir George Barclay

Failure of Berwick's Plot

Detection of the Assassination Plot

Parliamentary Proceedings touching the Assassination Plot

State of Public Feeling

Trial of Charnock, King and Keyes

Execution of Charnock, King and Keyes

Trial of Friend

Trial of Parkyns

Execution of Friend and Parkyns

Trials of Rookwood, Cranburne and Lowick

The Association

Bill for the Regulation of Elections

Act establishing a Land Bank