Lectures on Modern History: From the Irruption of the Northern Nation to the Close of the American Revolution, Volume 2H. G. Bohn, 1854 - History, Modern |
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... English Metrical Ro- mances . Revised by J. O. HALLIWELL . Florence of Worcester's Chronicle , with the Two Continuations : comprising Annals of English History to the Reign of Edward I Giraldus Cambrensis ' Historical Works ...
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Page 43 - That king James II. having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom by breaking the original contract between king and people; and, by the advice of jesuits and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws, and having withdrawn himself out of this kingdom, has abdicated the government, and that the throne is thereby become vacant.