A History of the Four Georges, Volume I

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Title: A History of the Four Georges, Volume I (of 4)
Author: Justin McCarthy

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A HISTORY OF THE FOUR GEORGES
by
JUSTIN MCCARTHY, M.P.
Author of "A History of Our Own Times" Etc.
In Four Volumes
VOL. I.

New York Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square 1901

CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME.
CHAP. PAGE
I. "MORE, ALAS! THAN THE QUEEN'S LIFE!" . . . . . . . 1
II. PARTIES AND LEADERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
III. "LOST FOR WANT OF SPIRIT" . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
IV. THE KING COMES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
V. WHAT THE KING CAME TO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
VI. OXFORD'S HALL; BOLINGBKOKE'S FLIGHT . . . . . . . 91
VII. THE WHITE COCKADE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
VIII. AFTER THE REBELLION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
IX. "MALICE DOMESTIC.--FOREIGN LEVY" . . . . . . . . . 158
X. HOME AFFAIRS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
XI. "THE EARTH HATH BUBBLES" . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
XII. AFTER THE STORM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
XIII. THE BANISHMENT OF ATTERBURY . . . . . . . . . . . 211
XIV. WALPOLE IN POWER AS WELL AS OFFICE . . . . . . . . 224
XV. THE DRAPIER'S LETTERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
XVI. THE OPPOSITION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
XVII. "OSNABRUCK! OSNABRUCK!" . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
XVIII. GEORGE THE SECOND . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272
XIX. "THE PATRIOTS" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284
XX. A VICTORY FOR THE PATRIOTS . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322

{1}
A HISTORY
OF
THE FOUR GEORGES.
CHAPTER I.
"MORE, ALAS! THAN THE QUEEN'S LIFE!"
"The Queen is pretty well," Swift wrote to Lord Peterborough on May 18, 1714, "at present, but the least disorder she has puts all in alarm." Swift goes on to tell his correspondent that "when it is over we act as if she were immortal; neither is it possible to persuade people to make any preparations against an evil day." Yet on the condition of Queen Anne's health depended to all appearance the continuance of peace in England. While Anne was sinking down