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The History of England from the Accession of James the Second


by Thomas Babington Macaulay




Volume V

(Chapters XXIII-XXV)




PREFACE TO THE FIFTH VOLUME.

I HAVE thought it right to publish that portion of the
continuation of the "History of England" which was fairly