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1672. signation. He came back much pleased with what he had obtained; and said to me upon it, there was now but one uneasy stage between him and rest, and he would wrestle through it the best he could.

And now I am come to the period that I set out for this book. The world was now in a general combustion, set on by the ambition of the court of France, and supported by the feebleness and treachery of the court of England. A stand was made by the prince of Orange and the elector of Brandenburgh. But the latter, not being in time assisted by the emperor, was forced to accept of such conditions as he could obtain. This winter there was great practice in all the courts of Europe, by the agents of France, to lay them every where 343 asleep; and to make the world look on their king's design in that campaign as a piece of glory, for the humbling of a rich and proud commonwealth; and that, as soon as that was done suitably to the dignity of the great monarch, he would give peace to the world, after he had shewn that nothing could stand before his arms. But the opening the progress of these negotiations, and the turn that the affairs of Europe took, belongs to the next period.

END OF VOL. I.

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TABLE OF THE CONTENTS

OF THE FOREGOING

VOLUME".

BOOK I.

A summary recapitulation of the state of affairs in Scotland,
both in church and state, from the beginning of the trou-
bles to the restoration of king Charles II. 1660.

a (The pages referred to are those of the folio edition, which are
inserted in the margin of the present.)

BOOK II.

Of the first twelve years of the reign of king Charles II.
from the year 1660 to the

100. The presbyterians in great dis-