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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.....

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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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