Excerpt from The History of England, Vol. 2: From the Accession of James I to the Elevation of the House of Hanover The period Of time in this Volume is {hort 57 but the judicious will pen ceive the difficulty of 'drawing thefe important tranfaetions into a nar rower-compafs, without depriving the reader Of necefiary information, and defeating the great intention work. 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.