Number of Paupers

Benefits derived by the Common People from the Progress of
Civilisation

Delusion which leads Men to overrate the Happiness of preceding
Generations

CHAPTER IV.

Death of Charles II

Suspicions of Poison

Speech of James II. to the Privy Council

James proclaimed

State of the Administration

New Arrangements

Sir George Jeffreys

The Revenue collected without an Act of Parliament

A Parliament called

Transactions between James and the French King