write in prison? Who were heavily fined? What did those suffer who met for worship out of the Church? What is said of the Scottish

Covenanters ?

24. With whom was England now at war? What occurred in 1667 in connection with this war?

25. Give the date of Titus Oates's plot? What report did Oates publish? What was the effect? What was his reward? What followed?

26. What Act passed in 1679? 27. Name another plot of this was Monmouth? What plan was How did it end? Date?

What was its object?

reign? What was its object? Who adopted for carrying out their designs?

d. What Act passed in 1673? What names came into use? What rebellion occurred in 1679? Who was put to death? What was Sharp? What observatory was built? What coins were made? Why called guineas? What church rebuilt? By whom?

28. Who succeeded? How long did he reign? Give dates. Who was James? Was he a favourite? Why not? Why was he not opposed? What did he soon show? What was his intention? What conspiracy was formed? What plans were formed for the purpose? What was Argyle's success? and his fate?

29. Where did Monmouth land? With how many men? How many joined him? Where was he met by the King's forces? What followed? How did he act? Was he taken? Relate the account? What was his fate? What was the treatment of his followers? Who were their brutal murderers? How was Jeffreys rewarded?

30. What did James now do? What laws did he make? Was this a right act? What was his motive? How did he offend the Universities? What did he command to be read in the churches? Who opposed this? What followed? Were the bishops acquitted? What was the effect on the people of London? What was James's conduct? How did he resolve to rule the nation?

31. What course was now taken by the English? Who was William ? Whom had he married? Whose grandson was he? Whose nephew? When did he land? Where? With how many men? How was he received? By whom was James forsaken? How did he act? Whither did he first flee? What there took place? Did he afterwards escape? Where did he spend the rest of his days? When did he die? What family had he? What was his son James afterwards called?

32. What vote was passed in Parliament? Upon whom was the crown settled? What Bill was signed by William ?

33. How long did William reign? Give dates. Did James try to regain the crown? Who assisted him? Where did he land? How was he received in Ireland?

34. What town did James besiege? Where is Londonderry? What is said of Ulster? What is said of the siege ?

35. Whom did William send to oppose James? Did he follow? What force had he? What battle was fought? Who was defeated? Date? What did James then do?

36. What shocking event occurred soon after this? What proclamation had William made? Who refused to comply? How did Macdonald afterwards act? Did he take the oath? Where? Relate what followed.

How many of the Macdonalds were slain? What became of some who escaped? Describe the scene of the morning.

37. What was William's chief aim? What was caused by his wars? What was the debt when he died? What is it now (1869)? What was the aim of the French King? What means did he use? Did he succeed? Where was his fleet defeated? When? What treaty ended this war? Date?

What were its provisions? What he die ?

38. What Act was passed in 1701? caused William's death? Where did e. What is said of Peter the Great? What Act passed in 1689? What bank was founded? What hospital finished? What is said of Greenwich Palace ?

39. Who succeeded? How long did Anne reign? Give dates. Whose daughter was she? Whose sister? Whose wife ?

40. What war was waged during her reign? Who commanded the English forces? How was he rewarded? What fortress was taken in 1704? By whom?

41. When were the English and Scottish Parliaments united ? On what terms?

42. What treaty ended the war with France? Date? What did England gain? What is said of Marlborough's conduct afterwards? What did he thereby lose?

43. What caused the death of Anne? At what age? What was her character? What is said of her family?

f. What is said of Eddystone Lighthouse? St. Paul's? What invention is named? Name four elegant authors.

g. What important change took place in the Constitution during the Stuart period? What is said of the charters of former reigns? What is said of the power of the Tudors? What spirit arose after printing was invented? Who strove to subdue it? What was the effect? What became necessary to the safety of the throne? What was the effect of the Bill of Rights?

h. What was the state of the country? Of morals? Arts and manufactures? Roads? What curious fact is stated respecting travelling?

i. What was the population of England? London? What is said of Bristol? Liverpool? Manchester ? &c.

k. What is said of the state of learning? Language? Who was the greatest poet? What was he?

7. Give events for the following dates-namely, 1605. 1628, 1640, 1642, 1644, 1645, 1649, 1653, 1660, 1665, 1666, 1688, 1704, 1707.

1. George I., Elector of Hanover, was the son of Sophia of Hanover, grand-daughter of James I. He had married his cousin, Sophia of Brunswick; but had treated her very cruelly, shutting her up in a castle of Hanover for forty years, and not allowing her to see her own children.

2. His first act was to impeach the Lords Oxford, Ormond, and Bolingbroke, who had opposed his being King and had favoured the Pretender, the son of James II., whose party took the name of Jacobites, from Jacobus, the Latin for James. Oxford was imprisoned for two years. Ormond and Bolingbroke fled to the Continent, and their estates were forfeited to the Crown.

3. In 1715 a rebellion broke out in Scotland in favour of the Pretender, headed by the Earl of Mar, who raised an army of 10,000 men, and proclaimed him King. His forces were defeated at Sheriffmuir, in Perthshire, by the royal troops under the Duke of Argyle; and on the same day a rebel army under the Earl of Derwentwater was defeated at Preston, Lancashire. The Earl of Mar fled with the Pretender to France. Derwentwater and many others were executed. Upwards of a thousand persons were banished to America.

4. Perhaps the strangest event of this reign was the famous South Sea Bubble, which brought ruin upon thousands of families. It will be remembered that William III., unable to meet the expenses of his wars by taxes alone, borrowed large sums of

money from wealthy merchants and others at a certain rate of interest. Greater sums still were borrowed in the reign of Anne, and also in the present reign; and now the National Debt amounted to about £50,000,000 sterling. The South Sea Company, being the greatest creditors of the State, offered to become the only ones by paying all the others; to take a lower rate of interest; and to advance to the Government £7,000,000 to meet present expenses. All they asked of Government was the power to raise a loan from the shareholders and others, and to have the sole right of trading to the South Seas. This offer the Government accepted.

5. Stories were now told of great fortunes to be made by lending money to the Company, and were fondly believed by the people. Crowds of shareholders came to change their Government stock for South Sea stock. Thousands of people of all classes poured in with all the money they could scrape together, in the hope of making great fortunes. So intense did the excitement become that some even gave £1000 in cash for a £100 share in South Sea stock!

6. But the mighty Bubble was soon to burst. Other companies sprang up, offering great fortunes for small subscriptions. They had one scheme for extracting silver from lead, another for making salt water fresh, a third for importing a lot of large jackasses from Spain, and many others equally foolish. The South Sea Company, jealous of these, and seeking to stop them, raised suspicion against themselves. Suspicion became conviction; the eyes of the people were opened; no more shares were wanted; those who had bought them began to feel uneasy, and wished to sell; no one would buy; the Company's offices were closed; and all that shareholders had to look at was worthless pieces of paper.

7. In 1727 the King, being on a visit to his subjects in Hanover, was taken ill whilst travelling in his carriage, and died the next day. Though King of England for thirteen years, he could neither write nor speak the English language.

a. Riot Act passed, 1715. Septennial Act, by which a Parliament was allowed to last seven years, 1716. Admiral Byng destroyed the Spanish fleet in the Mediterranean, 1718. Jacobite plot, for which Bishop Atterbury was banished, 1722. Vaccination first tried on criminals.

GEORGE II.

From A.D. 1727 to A.D. 1760.-33 years.

8. George II. was the only son of the late King. He had married Caroline of Anspach-a good and learned Princess. His eldest son, Frederick, who was now twenty years of age, was called over from Hanover to be made Prince of Wales. During the first twelve years of the reign the country enjoyed peace; and the King's chief minister was Sir Robert Walpole, who, by means of bribery, continued to hold the office of Premier for fifteen years.

9. In 1739 a war broke out with Spain, caused by the Spaniards searching British vessels suspected of smuggling on the coast of Spanish America. Portobello, a town in the Isthmus of Panama, was taken by the English. The city of Paita, on the coast of Chili, was taken by Anson, who also captured a Spanish galleon, or treasure ship, with £300,000 worth of gold. An attack made by the British on Carthagena, a town on the north coast of South America, failed; great numbers of our men were slain, and thousands more carried off by disease in that unhealthy climate.

10. In 1743 the Battle of Dettingen was fought by the King in person. His aim was to restore to Maria Theresa, Queen of Hungary, her dominions which had been taken from her by the Elector of Bavaria, the King of Prussia, and the King of France. King George, who behaved with great bravery, put the French army to flight. Maria Theresa regained her crown.

11. In 1745 Charles Edward, son of the Pretender, resolved to obtain the crown of England, and, leaving France, landed in Scotland with seven officers. The people of Edinburgh opened their gates to him, and he took up his quarters at Holyrood Palace. Great numbers flocked to his standard; and when Sir John Cope with the royal troops drew near Edinburgh, the young Pretender, at the head of 2000 Scots, went out to meet him. The battle was fought at Prestonpans; and the Scots dashed so furiously upon the English, first firing their pistols, and then rushing on with their claymores, that they gained a complete victory.

12. If Charles Edward had now marched to London, he would have had a chance of gaining the crown: but he trifled away six weeks at Edinburgh with grand balls and parties; and when he crossed the Border with 5000 men, the people did not