PICTORIAL

HISTORY OF ENGLAND:

BEING

A HISTORY OF THE PEOPLE,

AS WELL AS A HISTORY OF THE KINGDOM.

LLLUSTRATED WITH

MANY HUNDRED WOODCUTS

OF

MONUMENTAL RECORDS ; COINS ; CIVIL AND MILITARY COSTUME ; DOMESTIC BUILDINGS, FURNITURE, ANC.
ORNAMENTS ; CATHEDRALS AND OTHER GREAT WORKS OF ARCHITECTURE ; SPORTS AND OTHER
ILLUSTRATIONS OF MANNERS; MECHANICAL INVENTIONS ; PORTRAITS OF THE KINGS

AND QUEENS; THEIR SIGNATURES AND GREAT SEALS;

AND REMARKABLE HISTORICAL SCENES.

BY

GEORGE L. CRAIK AND CHARLES MACFARLANE.

ASSISTED BY OTHER CONTRIBUTORS.

IN SIX VOLUMES.

VOLUME V.

L O N D ON:
CHARLES KNIGHT AND CO., 22, LUDGATE STREET.

MDCCCXLI.

THE NEW YORK
PUBLIC LIBRARY

2426 09

ASTOR, LENOX AND
TILDEN FOUNDAT:C:IS.

1991

LONDON:
Printed by WILLIAM Clowes and Soxs,

Stamford Street.

CONTENT S.

BOOK IX.

Page

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The period from the Revolution to the Accession of George III., A.D. 1688–1760