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Today's installment concludes The Glorious Revolution,the name of our combined selection by Gilbert Burnet and Henry Duff Traill. The concluding

On the 28th the Commons resolved themselves into a committee of the whole House, and Richard Hampden, son of the great John, was voted into the

He called all the peers and the members of the three last parliaments that were in town, together with some of the citizens of London.Continuing The

The King seemed much dejected and asked if it must be done immediately.Continuing The Glorious Revolution,with a selection by Gilbert

The Prince ordered Zuylestein to go immediately to Feversham, and to see the King safe and at full liberty to go whithersoever he pleased.Continuing

Thus a great king, who had yet a good army and a strong fleet, did choose to abandon all than to expose himself to any danger with that part of the

News was brought him that the Earls of Devonshire and Danby, and Lord Lumley, were drawing great bodies together, and that both York and Newcastle had

All that belonged to us was so soon and so happily landed that by the next day at noon we were in full march and marched four miles that