The History of Great Britain, Vol. 2

Bücher

Angebote / Angebote:

Excerpt from The History of Great Britain, Vol. 2: Containing the Commonwealth, and the Reigns of Charles II. And James II Tiir nuncio, full of airogance, levity, and ambition, was not contented with this Violation of treaty. He fut xinoned an affembly of the clergy at Waterford, and engaged them to declaie again'fl' that pacuication, which the civil council had toneluded with their lawful fovereign. He even thundered out a fentence of ex ciiinmuiiication againit all thofe who fhould adhere to a peace, f0 prejudicial, as he pretended, to the Catholic religion and the deluded Iriih, terrified with his ipiiitual menaces, ranged themfelves every where on his fide, and fubmitted to his authority. \vithout fcruple, he carried on war againil the Lord Lieutenant, and threatened with a fiege the Proteftant gai'rifons, which were, all of them, very ill trot ided for defence. 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.