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OF THE

MOST MATERIAL TRANSACTIONS

IN

ENGLAND,

FOR

THE LAST HUNDRED YEARS,

PRECEDING the revolution in 1688.

BY JAMES WELWOOD, M.D.

PHYSICIAN IN ORDINARY TO HIS MAJESTY, AND FELLOW OF THE
COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS, LONDON.

A NEW EDITION.

LONDON:

REPRINTED IN 1820; FROM A COPY OF THE WORK SAID
TO BE THE THIRD EDITION, WHICH WAS PRINTED
IN THE YEAR 1700.

SOLD BY R. WILKS, 89, CHANCERY LANE;

AND MAY BE HAD OF ALL BOOKSELLERS.

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TO THE KING.

SIR,

THE Great Patrons of Liberty have not thought it below them to become the Patrons of History: and any thing of that kind which concerns England, does naturally claim the protection of a Prince, who by his valor and conduct has not only restored to the English Nation that figure they had lost in the world for near an hundred years past, but has raised them to a greater than ever they had before: a Prince, who in all he has done for the common safety of Europe, could have no brighter examples to follow, than those of his own Family: for when others have fought for dominion and power, vain empty notions, and destructive to mankind; it has ever been a glory peculiar to the House of Nassau, to have fought for LIBERTY, the noblest cause, and the greatest stake that mortals can contend for.

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