Excerpt from The History of Modern Europe, With a View of the Progress of Society From the Rise of the Modern Kingdoms to the Peace of Paris, in 1763, Vol. 2 of 3: And a Continuation of the History to the Present Time Petitions for redrm of gr avances presented to par liament by all orders of men in the state 1. Petitions in favour of the church or monarchy dis eountenanced, and their abettors imprisoned and prosecuted as delinquents 104 The peers and commoners attached to the court de terred from attending their duty in parliament 10! 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.