Memoirs of the Most Material Transactions in England, for the Last Hundred Years, Preceeding the Revolution in 1688 (Classic Reprint)

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.

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