Excerpt from Memoirs of the Most Material Transactions in England, for the Last Hundred Years, Preceeding the Revolution in 1688 In this Manner was I engaged to write the/2 Me moirs: But when I came to jet about them, I found my felf oblig'd to begin them higher, and tarry them down lower in point of Time than was expetted of me. Nor perhaps jhould I have had any Thoughts of pub li/bing them at the Time I did, if I had not been pre vail'd with, partly from the fear of a fitrreptitious Copy, but much more from King William's having font me by the late Earl of Portland the Manufcript 1 had given his Queen, found in her Cabinet 3 where upon the bath of it, [he had writ with her own Hand the Promife /he had made me of/howing it to no body without my Con/ent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.