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THE

HISTORY

OF

ENGLAND,

FROM

THE ACCESSION

OF

KING GEORGE THE THIRD,

TO THE

CONCLUSION OF FE&CE

IN THE YEAR.

ONE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-THREE.

BY

JOHN ADOLPHUS, ESQ. F.S.A.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL I.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR T. CADELL, JUN. AND W. DAVIES,

IN THE STRAND.

1

Luke Hanfard, Printer, Great Turnstile, Lincoln's-Inn Fields.

PREFACE.

#TW YOR

WHEN HEN I undertook the Work which is now fubmitted to the Public, I did not overlook the difficulties of the execution, nor overrate my own powers.

I FULLY appreciated the delicacy of detailing the annals of a living fovereign, and of defcanting on the conduct and motives of men who yet furvive, or who have been recently removed from the bufy fcene. I was aware that bitter calumny or fulfome adulation had disfigured moft of their characters; and that the real image of perfons, as well as the true colour of events, could with difficulty be discerned through the noxious mift or fplendid vapour. I knew that other writers had executed the fame task, and had even extended their labours to a nearer, and confequently more interesting period than that which it was my intention

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