The History of England from the Accession of James II.
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: army in the Netherlands: and it was necessary that, before he sailed, he should determine by whom the government should be administered during his absence. Hitherto Mary had acted as his vicegerent when he was out ...
MorePurchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: army in the Netherlands: and it was necessary that, before he sailed, he should determine by whom the government should be administered during his absence. Hitherto Mary had acted as his vicegerent when he was out of England: but she was gone. He therefore delegated his authority to sev- Lords-jastices en Lords-jnstices- Tenison, Archbishop of Canter- appoimtd. bury; Soniers, Keeper of the Great Seal; Pembroke, Keeper of the Privy Seal; Devonshire, Lord Steward ; Dorset, Lord Chamberlain; Shrewsbury, Secretary of State; and Go- dolphin, First Commissioner of the Treasury. It is easy to judge from this list of names which way the balance of power was now leaning. Godolphin alone of the seven was a Tory. The Lord President, still second in rank, and a few days before first in power, of the great lay dignitaries of the realm, was passed over; and the omission was universally regarded as an official announcement of his disgrace. There were some who wondered that the Princess of Denmark was not appointed Regent. The reconciliation, which Reconciiiation l'ail been begun while Mary was dying, had since lu'in anVtiie" ncr death been, in external show at least, completed. Princess Anne, .phis y,, onu of those occasions on which Sunder- land was peculiarly qualified to be useful. He was admirably fitted to manage personal negotiations, to soften resentment, to soothe wounded pride, to select, among all the objects of human desire, the very bait which was most likely to allure the mind with which he was dealing. On this occasion his task was not difficult. He had two excellent assistants: Marlborough, in the household of Anne, and Somers, in the cabinet of William. Marlborough was now as desirous to support the government as he had once been to subvert it. The death of Mary had produ...
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