An history of England, in a series of letters from a nobleman to his son.: [pt.2]

A CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF ENGLISH EVENTS.

TABLE I. Of the Saxon Heptarchy.

		A. D.
1.	VORTIGERN first King of Kent	455
2.	Kingdom of the South Saxons con∣tained Surry and Sussex, continued one hundred and thirteen years.
	Ella, first King thereof, and	488
	Ethelwolph, first Christian King,
3.	Kingdom of the West-Saxons contained what we now call Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset, Wilts, Berks, and Hampshire, continued three hundred years, began	519
	Cherdick, first King thereof, and
	Hingels, first Christian King.
4.	Kingdom of Northumberland at this time contained the counties of York, Durham, Lancaster, West∣morland, Cumberland, and Nottinghamshire, and continued three hundred and seventy-nine years, began to be so	527
	Ella and Ida, the first Kings thereof, and
	Edwin, the first Christian King.
5.	Kingdom of Mercia contained the counties of Ox∣ford, Gloucester, Worcester, Salop, Cheshire, Staf∣ford, Warwick, Buckingham, Huntingdon, with part of Hertford, Northampton, Rutland, Lincoln, Leicester, Derby, and Nottinghamshire: this king∣dom contained two hundred and two years, be∣gan	582

	Cerdan was first King, and
	Peada the first Christian King.
6.	Kingdom of the East-Angles contained Norfolk, Suf∣folk, and Cambridgeshire: This kingdom conti∣nued three hundred and fifty-three years, began	775
	Uffa was the first King thereof,
	Redwald the first Christian King, and
	Edmond the last King, whom the Danes slew, and he was buried at a village then called Heglisdune, but afterwards (in honour to Edmond) called St. Edmond's Bury.

TABLE II. Of the chief British princes who contended with the Saxons for their country's right.

		A. D.
1.	Vortigern, Vortimer his son, and Aurelius Ambrosius, from 393, to	497
2.	Uter Pendragon	497
3.	Arthur, son of Pendragon	516
	Buried at Glastenbury	542
4.	Constantine. son of Cador	542
	Buried at Stonehenge.
5.	Aurelius Conanus	545
6.	Vortiporus	578
7.	Malgo Conanus	581
8.	Caractacus	586
9.	Cadwin	639
10.	Cadwallo, or Cadwallin, his son	635
	Gulielmus and Faustinus archbishops of Canter∣bury.
11.	Cadwallador, son of Cadwallo,	685
	Buried at St. Peter's at Rome	689
	A great pestilence, which lasted eleven years.

TABLE III. The most noted Kings of the Saxon heptarchy were

		A. D.
1.	Hengist, King of Kent, &c.	455
2.	Edwin the Great, King of Northumberland	626

TABLE IV. The Saxon monarchs.

		A. D.
1.	Egbert, crowned at Westminster	819
	Buried at Westminster	826
2.	Ethelwolph, son of Egbert	836
	Died at Stanbridge, buried at Westminster	857
3.	Ethelbert, first Christian King	860
	Buried at Sherbourne	866
4.	Ethelred	865
	Died at Willington, buried at Westminster.
5.	Elfred, or Alfred, fourth son of Ethelwolph, anointed at Rome by Pope Leo, and crowned at Winchester	872
6.	Edward, the elder son of Alfred, crowned at King∣ston	901
	Died at Farringdon, buried at Winchester	924
7.	Ethelstan crowned at Kingston	924
	Died at Gloucester, buried at Malmsbury	940
8.	Edmund, fifth son of Edward, crowned	940
	Stabbed, and buried at Glastenbury	946
9.	Edred, sixth son of Edward,	946
	Buried at Winchester	955
10.	Edwy, eldest son of Edmund, crowned at Kingston	955
	Buried at Winchester	959
11.	Edgar, sirnamed the peaceable, crowned at King∣ston by Otho	959
	Buried at Glastenbury	975
	Elsius and Dunstan, Archbishops of Canterbury.
12.	Edward, sirnamed the Martyr, crowned at King∣ston, and buried at Shaftsbury.	975
13.	Ethelred, crowned at Kingston	978
	The Danes destroyed by the English, by a secret commission from the King, in every city, on the 30th of November	1002

	Ethelred died, buried at St. Paul's,	1016
14.	Edmund, sirnamed Ironside, crowned at Kingston	1016
	Canute, the Dane, besieged London	1017

TABLE V. Of the Danes.

		A. D.
1.	Canute crowned at London by Livingius	1017
	Canute died, and buried at Winchester	1035
	Issue, Swein, Harold, and Hardicanute.
2.	Harold, base son of Canute, sirnamed Harefoot, crowned at Oxford	1035
	Died at Oxford, buried at Winchester	1040
3.	Hardicanute crowned at London	1040
	He fell down dead at a banquet at Lambeth, and was buried at Winchester	1042

TABLE VI. Of the Saxons between the Danes and William the Conqueror.

		A. D.
1.	Edward, called the Confessor, crowned at Win∣chester, by Edsine Archbishop of Canterbury	1042
	He died, and was buried at Westminster	1066
2.	Harold, son of Earl Goodwin, crowned	1066
	William Duke of Normandy landed in Sussex, Sept. 28.
	He challenged Harold in single combat, Oct. 13.
	Battle at Hastings in Sussex, Saturday October 14.

TABLE VII. Of the Normans, &c.

		A. D.
1.	WILLIAM the Conqueror crowned	1066
	Landfrank, Archbishop of Canterbury	1066
	William died at Roan in Normandy	1087
2.	WILLIAM Rufus crowned	1087
	Shot by accident by Sir Walter Tyrrel, Aug. 1	1100
3.	HENRY I. named Beauclerk, crowned at West∣minster	1100

	Henry died at St. Denys in Normandy	1135
4.	STEPHEN crowned at Winchester by Corbell, Archbishop of Canterbury	1135
	Stephen died at Dover, and was buried at Fever∣sham.

TABLE VIII. The Saxon line restored.

		A. D.
1.	HENRY II. called Plantagenet, crowned at Westminster, by Theobald Archbishop of Canter∣bury	1154
	Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury.
	Henry died, and was buried at Font-Everard	1189
2.	RICHARD I. crowned at Westminster, by Baldwin, Archbishop of Canterbury	1189
	His bowels were buried at Charron, his head at Roan, and his body at Font-Everard	1199
3.	JOHN crowned at Westminster, by Hubert, Arch∣bishop of Canterbury	1199
	He surrenders the crown to the Pope's nuncio	1199
4.	HENRY III. crowned by Magnus, Archbishop of Canterbury	1216
	St. Edmund, Archbishop of Canterbury	1257
	Baliol college in Oxford founded	1263
	Henry died at St. Edmond's-Bury, buried at West∣minster	1272
5.	EDWARD I. sirnamed Longshanks, crowned at Westminster, by Kilwarby	1272
	Died of a dysentery, and buried at Westminster	1307
6.	EDWARD II. of Caernarvon, crowned	1307
	John Orford, Archbishop of Canterbury.
	King Edward resigned the crown to his son	1327
7.	EDWARD III. crowned eight days after his father's resignation	1327
	Now flourished the famous John Wickliffe, of the university of Oxford.
	Edward married Philippa, daughter of William Earl of Hainault and Holland.

	Edward died at Sheen, buried at Westminster	1377
8.	RICHARD II. crowned in the eleventh year of his age	1377
	A rebellion in Kent, headed by Wat Tyler and Jack Straw, with upwards of one hundred thousand.
	Richard charged with the breach of his corona∣tion oath, and committed to the Tower by Henry Duke of Lancaster, to whom he resigns the crown	1399
	Richard deposed	1399

TABLE IX. Of the line of Lancaster.

		A. D.
1.	HENRY IV. son of John of Gaunt, third son of Edward III. was crowned at Westminster, by Arundel Archbishop of Canterbury	1399
	Gun-powder first invented	1400
	A plague at London; upwards of thirty thousand died.
	King Henry died of an apoplexy, in the forty-seventh year of his age, and fourteenth of his reign; buried at Westminster	1413
2.	HENRY V. crowned at Westminster	1413
	Sir John Oldcastle prosecuted for heresy.
	Richard Plantagenet's conspiracy	1415
	The King lands in Normandy with ten thousand men, and kills sixty thousand at Agincourt.
	Sir John Oldcastle burned at St. Giles's	1418
	The King dies in France, in the thirty-fourth year of his age, and tenth of his reign	1422
3.	HENRY VI. of Windsor, crowned about the eighth month of his age	1422
	Joan Arc beats the English at Orleans	1429
	Joan Arc taken, and burned for a witch at Roan	1430
	King Henry crowned at Westminster	1431
	James Stuart (first of the name) King of Scot∣land, murdered by his subjects	1447
	Jack Cade enters London, and is killed	1450
	King Henry taken prisoner by the Yorkists	1460

TABLE X. Line of York.

		A. D.
1.	EDWARD IV. eldest son of Richard Duke of York, crowned at Westminster	1461
	King Henry taken in disguise	1464
	King Edward marries lady Grey	1465
	The Queen crowned at Westminster, and deliver∣ed of a daughter named Elizabeth, afterwards married to Henry VII. by which the houses of York and Lancaster were united	1466
	King Edward taken prisoner by the Earl of War∣wick, &c.	1469
	He makes his escape, and obtains a victory over Warwick	1470
	King Henry restored by parliament, and Edward deemed a usurper	1471
	Prince Henry, his son, killed at Tewksbury, by order of Edward.
	King Henry stabbed in the Tower by Richard Duke of Gloucester, about the fiftieth year of his age. He was buried first at Chertsey, and afterwards removed to Windsor.
	Printing (first practised in Germany in 1458) brought to England by William Caxton, mer∣cer of London.
	King Edward died at Westminster, and was buried at Windsor, in the forty-second year of his age, and twenty-third year of his reign	1483
2.	EDWARD V. succeeded his father, in the eleventh year of his age	1483
	Richard Duke of Gloucester, by his insinuations made protector.
3.	RICHARD III. usurped the throne, and crowned at Westminster	1483
	He causes his nephews Edward V. and Richard, to be murdered, and buried obscurely in the Tower	1484
	Richard killed at Bosworth, having reigned two years and two months	1485

TABLE XI. The families of York and Lancaster united.

		A. D.
1.	HENRY VII. grandson of John of Gaunt, fourth son of Edward III. crowned at Westmin∣ster, Oct. 30.	1485
	Earl of Warwick and famous Perkins executed	1499
	A great plague in England	1500
	Henry VII's chapel finished at Westminster	1502
	King Henry died at Richmond, in the fifty-third year of his age, and the twenty-fourth of his reign, and buried in his chapel at Westminster, April	1509
2.	HENRY VIII. crowned at Westminster	1509
	Princess Mary (afterwards Queen) born Feb. 18	1516
	Lutheran religion spreads in Germany	1517
	King Henry writes against Luther, for which Pope Leo X. gave him the title of Defender of the Faith	1521
	Wolsey pushes for being Pope, but is disappoint∣ed	1522
	The King applies for a divorce from Rome	1529
	Wolsey, charged with high treason, is apprehend∣ed at York, and dies at Leicester on the road	1530
	The King abandons Queen Catharine, and is cited to Rome, but refuses	1531
	Dr. Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, with others, pronounce the divorce of Catharine	1533
	The King marries Anne Bullen.
	The Queen brought to bed of a daughter, named Elizabeth, afterwards Queen.
	The Pope insists upon Henry living with Catha∣rine; but the King and parliament now throw off all subjection to Rome	1534
	Bishop Fisher and Sir Thomas Moore executed for denying the King's supremacy	1535
	Thomas Cromwel Blacksmith, of Putney, made Vicar-general.
	Wales united to England by act of parliament	1536
	The Bible translated and printed in English.

	Queen Catharine dies, in the fiftieth year of her age.
	King Henry jealous of Anne Bullen; and Cranmer divorces her.
	She is executed in the Tower, May 19.
	The King marries Jane Seymour, May 20.
	Queen Jane delivered of a son, afterwards Ed∣ward VI. and Jane died the third day	1537
	The Bible first read in churches in English	1538
	The King marries Anne, sister of the Duke of Cleves, and divorces her in six months, by the instigation of Archbishop Cranmer, &c.	1540
	Thomas Cromwel beheaded for treason upon Tower-hill.
	The King marries lady Catharine Howard.
	Queen Catharine Howard accused by Cranmer of incontinence, and, without any trial, behead∣ed on Tower-hill, Feb. 13	1542
	The King marries lady Catharine Parr	1543
	An act was made, that in case of failure of the issue of Edward his son, the succession to Mary and Elizabeth	1544
	King Henry died Jan. 28, in the fifty-sixth year of his age, and thirty-eighth of his reign.

TABLE XII.

		A. D.
1.	EDWARD VI. son of Henry VIII. crowned at Westminster	1546
	Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford, protector.
	Popish images burned	1547
	Catharine dowager marries Sir Thomas Seymour Lord High-Admiral, and dies in child-bed	1548
	Seymour attainted of treason, and beheaded	1549
	The protector beheaded	1550
	King Edward dies at Greenwich, in the sixteenth year of his age, and seventh of his reign, and buried at Westminster	1553
2.	MARY, only daughter of Henry VIII.	1553
	Lady Jane Grey proclaimed, July 10.
	Mary proclaimed, July 19.

	Archbishop Cranmer, Guilford Dudley, and his wife, condemned for high treason.
	Sir Thomas Wyat beheaded	1554
	John Rogers, the first martyr of the times, burn∣ed at London; and Bishop Hooper at Gloucester	1555
	Bishop Ridley, Latimer, and Archbishop Cranmer, burned.
	Archbishop Cranmer burned at Oxford, and is succeeded by Cardinal Pool	1556
	Calais (having been near two hundred years in the possession of the English) surrendered to the French	1557
	The Queen died of a fever, November 17	1558
3.	ELIZABETH succeeded her half-sister Mary by right	1558
	Elizabeth crowned, Jan. 15, at Westminster.
	Mary Queen of Scots married to the Dauphine	1559
	The thirty-nine articles of religion established in convocation	1561
	The Queen of Scots, married to Henry Stuart (Lord Darnly)	1565
	She is brought to bed of a son, afterwards James I. of England	1566
	Prince James crowned King of Scotland	1567
	Francis Drake returned from his voyage round the globe in about three years	1580
	Virginia made an English colony.
	Tobacco first brought into England by Sir Walter Raleigh.
	Queen of Scots beheaded at Fotheringhay castle, aged 46	1587
	Spanish armada	1588
	Died of the plague in London 18,000	1593
	Prince Charles, afterwards King Charles I. born at Dunferling castle	1600
	Earl of Essex forms a design against the Queen, and is executed, Feb. 25, in the Tower.
	The Queen died at Richmond, March 24, in the seventieth year of her age, and forty-fifth year of her reign, and was buried in Henry VIIth's chapel, at Westminster, April 28.	1603

TABLE XIII. Of the union of the two crowns.

		A. D.
1.	JAMES I. of England (and VI. of Scotland) son of Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, and Mary Queen of Scots	1603
	King and Queen crowned at Westminster by Whit∣gift, Archbishop of Canterbury.
	King James first styled King of Great Britain	1604
	Oath of allegiance first admitted.
	The Bible translated as now used.
	Powder plot, Nov. 5	1605
	Henry Garnet, the Jesuit, confessed his having a hand in the plot, and was executed March 28, at the west end of St. Paul's	1606
	Died of the plague this and the preceding year 61, 596.
	Prince Henry died Nov. 6, aged 19, buried at Westminster.
	New river water brought to London	1613
	Sir Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor, and George Villers (Baron of Whaddon and Viscount Vil∣lers) master of the horse	1616
	Charles, the King's second son, (afterwards King) Duke of Cornwall, created Prince of Wales, Nov. 4.
	Sir Walter Raleigh executed	1618
	A match between Prince Charles and Princess Henrietta, daughter of Henry IV, of France	1624
	The King died 27th of March, in the 23d year of his reign, and in the 69th year of his age, and was interred in Westminster Abbey, May 17.

TABLE XIV.

		A. D.
1.	CHARLES I. only surviving son of James	1625
	His Queen Henrietta Maria lands at Dover, and the marriage consummated at Canterbury, June 13, and arrive at London the 16th.
	The King crowned at London, Feb. 2.

	Sir Francis Bacon died April 9	1626
	The King raises money by sale of the crown lands, &c.	1626
	Bishop Laud, Bishop Neale, and the Duke of Bucks, remonstrated against Dr. Lamb, mur∣dered by a mob	1627
	John Felton hanged in chains for stabbing the Duke of Buckingham, Nov. 19	1628
	Bishop Laud made Chancellor of Oxford, April 12	1630
	Charles, afterwards King, born June 27.
	The King, with Bishop Laud, goes to Scotland, and he is crowned at Holyrood house, June 18	1633
	Prince James (afterwards King) born and bap∣tized at Somerset house, Oct. 15.
	Archbishop Laud aims at universal conformity, but is opposed.
	Princess Anne born March 17	1636
	The Scots enter into covenant against the act of uniformity, the liturgy, &c.	1637
	Mary de Medicis, the Queen's mother, arrives in England, Oct. 31	1638
	The Scots begin the war, and Lesley seizes Edin∣burgh, the regalia, &c. Feb. 20.
	Thomas Viscount Wentworth subscribes twenty, and the Duke of Lenox forty, thousand pounds, to carry on the war against the Scots, Jan. 12	1639
	Prince Charles, at the age of twelve, takes his seat in parliament	1640
	London refuses to lend the King 100,000 l.
	Scotch army enters England.
	Lesley beats Lord Conway at Newborn, and the Scots make themselves masters of Newcastle, Durham, &c. and seize the King's magazines, Aug. 27, 28, 29.
	The long parliament meet Nov. 3.
	Earl of Stafford committed to the Tower.	1640
	The commons vote 300,000 l. to supply the Scots.
	Bishop Laud committed to the Tower, March 1.

	Stafford condemned and beheaded on Tower-Hill, May 12	1641
	The English massacred in Ireland, by Sir Phelim O'Neal, &c.
	The King's magazines, forts, fleets, &c. seized, Feb. 2.
	He flies to York, March 19.
	The King goes to Hull, but is denied admittance by Sir John Hotham	1642
	Dover castle seized by the parliament.
	The Queen lands in Burlington bay in Yorkshire, with money, arms, and ammunition, Feb. 28.
	Scotch and English army join under command of Lord Fairfax, April 26	1644
	The battle at Marston-Moor, by the Earl of Manchester, Fairfax, and Lesley.
	Archbishop Laud is beheaded on Tower-Hill, Jan. 10	1644
	Fairfax and Cromwell new model the army, April 17	1645
	Fairfax defeats the King at Naseby, June 14.
	Fairfax returns to London in triumph, Nov. 12.
	The Scots deliver the King up to the English, Ja∣nuary 30	1646
	The King taken at Holmby house in Northamp∣tonshire, by Cornet Joyce, Feb. 16.
	The King made close prisoner, Jan. 17	1647
	Lord Fairfax died at York, March 13.
	The Duke of York escapes to Holland, April 22	1648
	The King brought from Windsor to St. James's, January 15.
	The King brought to a trial, Jan. 27.
	Murdered, Jan. 30, in the forty-ninth year of the King's age, and twenty-fourth year of his reign.

TABLE XV.

	A. D.
Cromwell made Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Au∣gust 13	1649
Sets sail for Ireland, Aug. 16.

He takes Drogheda by storm, Sept. 14.
Charles II. arrives at Jersey, Sept. 19.
The Marquis of Montrose hanged	1650
The King arrives at Scotland, June 23.
General Fairfax resigns his commission, June 25.
The King proclaimed at Edinburgh cross, July 15.
Cromwell invades Scotland, July 22	1650
Cromwell passes the Frith, and at Fife kills two thousand Scots, and takes twelve hundred prisoners, July	1651
Charles II. enters England by Carlisle, at the head of sixteen thousand men, and is pro∣claimed King, Aug. 6.
At Worcester the King's forces are routed, Sept. 3.
The Speaker of the house, &c. meets Cromwell at Acton, and conducts him to London in tri∣umph, Sept. 12.
The King arrives at Forscan near Havre de Grace in France, Oct. 22.
A sea fight, in which Blake beats De Wit the Dutch Admiral, Oct. 28.
Cromwell goes to the house with a file of mus∣queteers, commands the Speaker to leave the chair, April 20	1653
Cromwell's members chuse Rouse for their Speaker, July 4 and 5.
Cromwell proclaimed Lord Protector in London, Westminster, &c. &c. December.
The Queen of Sweden resigns her crown, May 30	1654
Jamaica taken by Admiral Penn, May 3.
Spain declares war against England, Feb. 16.
Cromwell gets a bill passed for renouncing the pretended title of Charles Stuart, Sept. 26.
The parliament desire Cromwell to be vested with the title of King, April 4	1657
The officers of the army oppose Cromwell's ac∣cepting the title, April 20.
Cromwell taken ill Aug. 12, and died Sept. 3, after being protector four years, eight months, and eighteen days; aged sixty	1658

Richard Cromwell proclaimed Lord Protector, Sept. 4.
Prince Henry (the King's brother) created Duke of Gloucester, May 13	1659
Monk marches to London, takes up his quarters at Whitehall, Feb 4.
The parliament dissolved by act, having sat and continued, in various forms, nineteen years, four months, and thirteen days, March 16	1659
The city of London, and the fleet, declare for his majesty, May 3	1660
The King proclaimed in London and Westminster, May 8.
The King proclaimed in Ireland, May 14.
The King lands at Dover, and is received by General Monk, May 25.
The King makes a triumphant entry into the city of London, (being his birth-day) May 29.
Duke of York made Lord High-Chancellor of England, June 1.
Regicides executed, from the 10th to the 19th of October.
Matthew Hale made Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, Nov. 7.
The coronation solemnized with great pomp by Archbishop Juxon, April 23	1661
Miles Corbet, John Okey, and John Barkstead, three regicides, sent over from Holland, April 16, and executed the 19th	1662
Princess Mary, eldest daughter to the Duke of York, (married afterwards to William Henry Nassau Prince of Orange) born April 30.
Dunkirk delivered to the French, Oct. 17.
Sir Robert Hyde made Lord Chief Justice, Oct. 19.
An address of both houses to banish all popish priests and jesuits, April 1.
The city lends his majesty one hundred thousand pounds to support the war against the Dutch, June 21.

Lady Anne, second daughter to the Duke of York, (afterwards Queen of England) born at St. James's, Feb. 6.
George Fox (father, or leader of the Quakers) confined in Scarborough-Castle, March 31	1665
The dreadful fire of London, Sept. 2	1666
The Dutch sail up the Medway, at Chatham, June 11	1667
The King laid the first stone of the foundation of the first pillar of the Royal Exchange, Oct. 23, and the Duke of York the first stone of the second pillar, Oct. 31.
Bridge-Town, in Barbadoes, burnt down, April 23	1688
The Royal Exchange first opened, Sept. 18	1669
Blood, and his confederates, apprehended in at∣tempting to carry off the crown out of the Tower, May 9	1671
Tobago, in the West-Indies, taken from the Dutch, December 20	1672
The test act passes the royal assent, March 29	1673
Prince Rupert takes the command of the fleet upon the Duke of York's resignation, April 9.
Prince Rupert beats the Dutch, and forces them into their harbours, April 28.
Sir Thomas Osborn created Lord High Treasurer, Aug. 15.
An order of council that no Papist, or reputed Papist, attempt to come to court, June 14.
George Fitz-Roy, third natural son to King Charles II. (by the Duchess of Cleveland) created Earl of Northumberland, Viscount Falmouth, and Baron of Pontefract, Oct. 31.
Princess Mary married to the Prince of Orange at St. James's, Nov. 4	1677
Dr. Tongue, a physician, reports a conspiracy against the King's life and the Protestant re-religion, by the Jesuits, Aug. 11	1678
Dr. Tongue and Thomas Oates make oath of the plot against the King, before Sir Edmundbury Godfrey, Sept. 6.

A dispute arises in the house concerning exclud∣ing the Duke of York from succeeding to the crown, Nov. 4.
Ireland, Grove, and Pickering, convicted of the plot (executed 1679) December 17.
The commons order a bill to disable the Duke of York to succeed to the crown, May 15	1679
Thomas Whitebread, Provincial of the Jesuits, with Harcourt, Fenwick, Gavan, and Turner, tried and convicted, at the Old Bailey, of high treason, June 18.
Richard Langhorne, Esq Counsellor, convicted of high treason, as being concerned in the plot, and is executed, July 14.
Dangerfield committed for high treason, Oct. 27.
Lord Stafford convicted of high treason, and be∣headed, December 29	1680
His majesty constitutes the Duke of York High Commissioner of Scotland, and to be his re∣presentative there, June 22	1681
Dr. Oliver Plunket, titular Primate of Ireland, and Edward Fitz-Harris, Esq executed at Tyburn, for high treason, July 1.
Anthony Earl of Shaftesbury committed to the Tower for high treason, papers having been found upon him for excluding the Duke of York, July 2.
The famous Titus Oates turned out of his lodg∣ings at Whitehall, and discharged.
The Earl of Shaftesbury tried at the Old Bailey, for attempting to exclude the Duke of York; but the grand jury bring it in ignoramus, No∣vember 24.
The supposed plot for assassinating the King at Rye house, in Hertfordshire, discovered, June 12 and 23	1683
William Lord Russel, and the Earl of Essex, with Walcot, Hone, and Rouse, are convicted of high treason, and sentenced to death, July 13.
Lord Russel beheaded in Lincoln's-inn-fields, July 21.

Algernon Sidney convicted of being in the plot, and beheaded on Tower-Hill, Dec. 7.
The King died at Whitehall in the fifty-fifth year of his age, and the thirty-seventh year of his reign; buried in Westminster Abbey.

TABLE XVI.

	A. D.
JAMES II. proclaimed King, Feb. 6	1684
Titus Oates found guilty of perjury	1685
The Duke of Monmouth proclaimed King at Taunton, June 20.
The Duke of Argyle beheaded at Edinburgh, June 30.
The Duke of Monmouth defeated near Bridge∣water, July 6.
Monmouth beheaded on Tower hill, in the thirty-sixth year of his age, July 15.
The ecclesiastical commission opened	1686
The Bishop of London suspended, Sept. 28.
The King publishes a declaration for liberty of conscience to all sects, Apr. 4	1687
The King sends his mandate to Magdalene col∣lege Oxon, to elect Mr. Anthony Farmer (a Roman Catholic) their president, April 11.
The Pope's Nuncio admitted to an audience to their Majesties at Windsor, July 3.
Father Edward Petre, a Jesuit, sworn of the privy-council, Nov. 11.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of St. Asaph, Ely, Chichester, Bath, Wells, Peter∣borough, and Bristol, present a petition to his Majesty, desiring him to dispense with the di∣stributing and reading the declaration for li∣berty of conscience, May 18.
The Bishops sent to the Tower, June 8.
The seven Bishops brought to trial, June 29.
The Prince of Orange sets sail from Holland, Oct. 19.
The Prince of Orange lands at Torbay, Nov. 1.
The Prince of Orange arrives at Exeter, Nov. 8.

Lord Cornbury, Lord Churchill, the Duke of Grafton, and many other Lords join the Prince of Orange, Nov. 22.
The Prince of Denmark, and the Duke of Or∣mond, desert the King, Nov. 24.
The Queen, and the young Prince, embark for France, Dec. 9.
The King sends orders to the Earl of Feversham to disband the army, and takes water at White∣hall stairs for France, Dec. 10.
The Prince of Orange arrives at Windsor.
The King returns to Whitehall, Dec. 16.
The Prince of Orange issues a declaration for all officers, magistrates, &c. to keep their places (except Papists) till further orders, Dec. 30.
The Archbishop, and seven other Bishops, fign the association, Jan. 16.	1688
The Commons resolve that the throne is vacant, Jan. 31.
The Lords agree to the same, Feb. 2.
King James II. reigned three years nine months and eleven days; the throne vacant two months and three days.
The Princess of Orange arrives at Whitehall, Feb. 12.

TABLE XVII.

	A. D.
WILLIAM-HENRY and MARY, Prince and Princess of Orange, proclaimed King and Queen with the usual solemnity, Feb. 13.
Admiral Herbert cruises upon the Irish coast with thirty men of war, Feb. 27.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishops of Gloucester, Ely, Norwich, Bath, Wells, and Peterborough, refuse to take the oaths to King William, March 1.
King William orders sixty men of war to be fit∣ted out, March 2.
King James sails from Brest with a body of French troops to Ireland, March 5.

The royal Scotch regiment, and Dumbarton's, declare for King James; but they are beat by the Dutch under Ginghle, March 12.
Prince George of Denmark created Baron of Oak∣ingham, Earl of Kendale, and Duke of Cum∣berland, with precedence of all Dukes, by act of parliament, Apri. 9	1689
The King and Queen crowned at Westminster, by the Bishop of London, April 11.
Lord Chancellor Jefferies died in the Tower, and was buried there, April 18.
The King invites the French Protestants to Eng∣land, April 29.
War declared against France, May 7.
An act passes for disarming Papists, May 11.
The King settles three hundred pounds per Ann. upon Titus Oates for life, May 31.
King James coins brass money in Ireland, and sets the value of silver upon it, June 18.
An act for abolishing episcopacy in Scotland re∣ceived the royal assent, July 22.
Princess Anne delivered of a son, who was chri∣stened William, and afterwards created Duke of Gloucester, July 24.
Duke Schomberg sets sail for Ireland with ten thousand land forces, Aug. 12.
The King gives Dr. Walker five thousand pounds for defending Londonderry so bravely, Aug. 28.
King William embarks for Ireland the 11th of June.
A battle upon the banks of the Boyne, July 1.
The King enters triumphant into Dublin, July 3.
Sir Thomas Pilkington re-elected Lord-Mayor of London, Sept. 29.
Dr. John Tillotson, Dean of St. Paul's, conse∣crated Archbishop of Canterbury, and suc∣ceeded by Dr. Sherlock to the deanery, May 31	1691
Limerick in Ireland surrendered to the English, which put an end to the wars there, Oct. 3.

Queen Mary issues a proclamation for a general fast, March 26	1692
The English and Dutch fleets, under Admiral Russel, totally disperse the French fleet under Admiral Tourville, at La Hogue, May 19.
An earthquake in England, Sept. 8.
King William returns to England, Oct. 20.
The King and Queen go to the Lord-Mayor's feast at Guildhall, Oct. 29.
King William embarked at Gravesend on March the 31st, and arrived in Holland, April 2.	1693
Admiral Rooke, with twenty-three men of war, with the Turkey fleet under convoy, was met off Cape St. Vincent by the whole French fleet under Admiral Tourville; the French took and destroyed twelve English and Dutch men of war, and took about fourscore merchant-men, June 16.
Hackney coaches licensed and regulated	1694
Admiral Russel destroys one large French man of war in the bay of Bartram, and took thirty-five merchant-men, May 11.
A great fire at Warwick, which burnt down the large church, and nearly three quarters of the town, Sept. 5.
The King returns from Holland to Canterbury, Nov. 9.
Dr. John Tillotson, Archbishop of Canterbury, died at Lambeth, in the sixty-fifth year of his age, Nov. 22.
The Commons vote a supply of four million seven hundred thousand pounds for the ensu∣ing year, Nov. 30.
Queen Mary taken with the small-pox at Ken∣fington, Dec. 21.
Queen Mary died in the thirty-third year of her age, and in the sixth year of her reign, Decem∣ber 28.

WILLIAM III.
An act for rebuilding the town of Warwick, Feb. 11.
Queen Mary, having lain in state nine weeks at Whitehall, buried in Henry VII's chapel, and a funeral sermon preached for her by Archbishop Tenison, March 5.
An act for imprisoning Sir Thomas Cook, Sir Basil Firebrace, Charles Bates, Esq and James Craggs, May 3	169••
The massacre at Glenco, by the Earl of Argyle's regiment, May 9.
The Royal Sovereign, the largest man of war, burnt by accident, Jan. 27	169••
King James came to Calais, in order to embark for England, with a body of French troops; but Admiral Russel, with a fleet, appearing before Dunkirk, the scheme was prevented, March 2.
Charnock, King, and Keys, for conspiring against the life of the King, are convicted, and exe∣cuted at Tyburn, March 18.
Sir John Friend and Sir William Perkins are tried and convicted of high treason, in conspiring the King's death, and creating a rebellion, and were executed at Tyburn, Apr. 3	1696
Brigadier Rookwood, Lowick, and Cranburn, exe∣cuted at Tyburn, for being concerned in the assassination plot, April 21.
The King embarked at Margate for Holland, April 25	1697
Peace with France proclaimed in London, Oct. 19.
The King returns to London, Nov. 16.
A fire at Whitehall which consumed the whole, except the banqueting-house, Jan. 4.
The Czar of Muscovy came to London, January 11.
A proclamation for banishing all Popish Priests and Jesuits, &c. Feb. 8	1699

The King angry with the Commons for their resolutions in settling the affair of the forfeit∣ed estates in Ireland, &c. &c. Feb. 21.
The great seal taken from Lord Somers, and given to Sir Nathan Wright, May 21	1700
The King of Sweden gains a complete victory over the Muscovites, near Narva, Nov. 30.
A convocation opened, and Dr. Hooper, Dean of Canterbury, chosen prolocutor, Feb. 11.
The commons come to a resolution concerning a further limitation of the crown, March 11.
John Earl of Marlborough made General of the foot, Jan. 1	1701
King William goes to Holland, July 1.
King James II. died of a lethargy at St. Ger∣maines in France, in the eighty-sixth year of his age, Sept. 6.
King William concludes an alliance with the Emperor and States-General against France, called the Grand Alliance, Sept. 7.
The King returns from Holland, Nov. 5.
An act passed the royal assent for the attainder of the pretended Prince of Wales of high treason; and from this he was called the Pre∣tender in common, March 2.
King William died at Kensington, in the fifty-second year of his age, and fourteenth of his reign, and was buried in Henry VII's chapel in Westminster abbey.

TABLE XVIII.

	A. D.
Queen ANNE, the only surviving child of James II. by the lady Anne Hyde, eldest daugh∣ter of Edward Earl of Clarendon.
The Earl of Marlborough declared Captain-General of all her Majesty's forces both in England, and abroad, March 15.
The Earl of Marlborough sent to Holland as am∣bassador and plenipotentiary, March 28	1702
The Queen crowned at Westminster, April 23.

War declared against France by the Queen, the Emperor, and the States-General.
The English, under Sir George Rooke, accompa∣nied by the Dutch, attack the French fleet, and Spanish galleons, at Vigo in Gallcia, Oct. 12.
John Earl of Marlborough created marquiss of Blandford and Duke of Marlborough, Decem∣ber 14.
Captain Kirby and Captain Wade shot at Ports∣mouth, for betraying and deserting Admiral Benbow in the engagement with Du Casse, Apr. 6	1703
Sir Cloudesley Shovel arrives in Lisbon river, Sep∣tember 1.
Charles III. King of Spain, arrived at Spithead, and went to Windsor, Dec. 26.
The English and Dutch forces, under the com∣mand of Scomberg and Fagel, arrive at Portu∣gal, April 23	1704
King Philip declares war against the King of Portugal, and against King Charles III. and his allies, Apr. 30.
The confederate fleet, under the Prince of Hesse, land a large body of troops in the bay of Gi∣braltar, and attacked that place July 21, and it surrenders July 24.
An engagement between Sir George Rook and the French, Aug. 13.
The Emperor creates the Duke of Marlborough Prince of the Empire, Aug. 28.
The French and Spaniards besiege Gibraltar, Oct. 22.
Admiral Leake sailed for Lisbon with forces for Gibraltar, and arrive there, Nov. 9.
The Duke of Marlborough returns to England, Dec. 14.
The Duke receives the thanks of both houses of parliament for his great services, Dec. 14.
An act for prohibiting all trade with France, March 16.

An order of council, by which the Dutch have liberty to trade with France notwithstanding the act, March 19.
King Stanislaus crowned King of Poland, Oct. 20	1705
The Duke of Marlborough embarks for Holland, to open the campaign, April 10	1706
The French and Spaniards lay siege to Barcelona, May 1.
The Duke of Marlborough obtains a complete victory over the Elector of Bavaria and Mar∣shal Villeroy, at Ramillies, May 12.
The Marquis das Minas, and the Earl of Gal∣way, took possession of Madrid, (capital of Spain) and Charles III. was, (on the 27th) proclaimed King, June 24.
Prince Eugene passes the Po in order to relieve Turin, July 6.
Articles of Union between England and Scotland, signed by the commissioners of both kingdoms, July 22.
George Augustus, electoral Prince of Hanover, cre∣ated Baron of Tewksbury, Viscount Northaller∣ton, Earl of Milford-haven, Marquis and Duke of Cambridge, Oct. 5.
An act for settling the honour and dignities of John Duke of Marlborough upon his posterity, annexing the manor of Woodstock and house of Blenheim, to go with the said honours, Dec. 21.
The French and Spaniards intirely defeat the confederates at Almanza, April 14	1707
King Charles III. of Spain proclaimed at Naples, July 31.
The first parliament of Great Britain met, Oct. 23.
The Duke of Marlborough levels all the French lines between Ypres and Lys, and put all Pi∣cardy under contribution, July 26	1708

Sir John Leake arrives before Cagliari, the ca∣pital of Sardinia, and the whole island de∣clares for Charles III. of Spain, Aug. 12.
The island of Minorca, with the commodious harbour of Port-Mahon, taken by General Stanhope, and made to pay obedience to Charles III. of Spain, Sept. 30.
The town of Lisle taken, Oct. 23.
Ghent surrendered to the Duke of Marlborough, Dec. 30.
Prince Eugene, the Duke of Marlborough, and the Marquis de Torcy, met together at the Hague, to settle preliminaries of peace, May 8	1709
The Pope, at last, acknowledges Charles III. to be King of Spain, June 7.
Dr. Henry Sacheverell's noted sermon preached before the Lord-Mayor and Aldermen, at St. Paul's, Nov. 5.
Dr. Sacheverell brought before the house, Dec. 15. Robert Walpole, Esq made treasurer of the navy, Jan. 13.
The trial of Dr. Sacheverell, Feb. 27.
The Duke of Ormond declared Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Oct. 8	1710
The Abbot De la Bourlie stabs Mr. Harley, at the Cockpit, Feb 28.
The commons resolve, That fifty new churches should be speedily erected, in and about Lon∣don and Westminster, April 6	1711
The Duke of Marlborough turned out of all places, posts, or employments, Dec. 30.
Robert Walpole, Esq expelled the house.
The Duke of Ormond constituted Captain Ge∣neral of all her Majesty's forces in Great Bri∣tain, Jan. 1.
Robert Walpole, Esq committed to the Tower for corrupt practices.
A suspension of arms declared between Great Britain and France, for four months, Aug. 27	1712

The Dutch refuse a cessation of arms, Sept. 30. Articles of peace signed at Utrecht, March 30	1713
Peace proclaimed with great solemnity at Lon∣don, May 5.
Dr. Atterbury created Bishop of Rochester, July 5.
Spain, by the treaty of peace signed at Utrecht, acknowledges the Protestant succession, and yields Gibraltar, Minorca, and Port-Mahon, to Great Britain, &c. July 13.
The fortification of the harbour, and also the citadel of Dunkirk, intirely demolished, April 26	1714
Her Majesty taken very ill, July 29.
Died, Aug. 1.
Queen Anne died in the fiftieth year of her age, and the thirteenth year of her reign.

TABLE XIX.

	A. D.
GEORGE I.
George, Elector of Brunswick and Lunenburgh, succeeded to the crown, Aug. 1.
The Duke of Marlborough made a triumphant entry into London, Aug. 4.
King George I. proclaimed at Edinburgh, Aug. 5.
The King proclaimed at Dublin, Aug. 6.
Queen Anne's remains privately interred in West∣minster Abbey by order of the King, Aug. 24.
King George arrived at Greenwich, Sept. 18.
The Duke of Ormond removed from being Cap∣tain General, Sept. 20.
King George crowned at Westminster, Oct. 20.
An order issued by his Majesty, prohibiting the clergy to meddle with any state affairs in their sermons, Dec. 11.
Prince of Wales chosen Governor of the South-Sea company, Feb. 18.
The Duke of Ormond retires to France, Aug. 6.	1715
Lewis XIV. King of France, died, Aug. 20.

The hon. James Murray joined the Earl of Marr, Oct. 4.
The Earl of Derwentwater, the Lord Viscount Kenmure, with the Earls of Nethisdale, Carn∣wath, and Winton, join with Mr. Foster, with two hundred Scotch horse, Oct. 19.
General Willis and General Carpenter attack the rebels, Nov. 13.
The principal prisoners brought to London, Dec. 9.
The Pretender lands at Peterhead near Aberdeen, Dec. 25.
The Pretender makes his public entry into Perth, Jan. 10.
Orders of council for executing the Earls of Derwentwater and Nithisdale, and Lord Vis∣count Kenmure, Feb. 24.
Colonel Oxburgh executed at Tyburn, and his head set upon Temple-Bar, May 14	1716
Richard Gascoigne, Esq executed at Tyburn, May 25.
Thomas Forster escaped out of Newgate, and Pitt the keeper indicted for it, July 6.
Prince Eugene gains a complete victory over the Turks, near Peter-Waradin, Aug. 5.
The Czar of Moscovy comes to Holland, Dec. 30.
The Duke of Newcastle made Lord Chamberlain of his Majesty's houshold, and his brother Colonel Pelham, Vice-Chamberlain, April 20	1717
Prince Eugene gains a complete victory over the Turks, near Belgrade, Aug. 5.
Charles XII. King of Sweden, killed at Frede∣rickshall, Nov. 30	1718
War declared against Spain, Dec. 16.
Baron Gortz beheaded at Stockholm, Feb. 20.
The Pretender arrived at Madrid, was met by the Duke of Ormond, and received there with all honour and respect, March 26	1719
The French invade Spain by land, April 10.

Her Grace Erengard Melosina, Duchess of Mun∣ster, created Baroness, Countess, and Duchess of Great Britain, viz. Baroness of Glastenbury, Countess of Feversham, and Duchess of Ken∣dal.
The King embarked for Holland, May 9.
Arrives at St. James's, from Hanover, Nov. 13.
The King embarks at Greenwich, for Holland, Apr. 15	1720
The King gave orders, that all such of the di∣rectors of the South-Sea company as were in, or had any employment under the crown, should be immediately discharged his service, Jan. 11.
Mr. Robert Knight stopped, by order of the mar∣quis Deprio, at Tirlemont, and committed pri∣soner to Antwerp castle, Feb.
Sir John Blount, chief projector of the South-Sea bubble, sent for, but refuses an examination.
Colonel Charles Churchill sent to Vienna, in his Majesty's name, to the Emperor, that he would be pleased to deliver up Mr. Knight, prisoner in the castle of Antwerp, Feb. 13.
The right hon. Robert Walpole, Esq made Chan∣cellor and Under-treasurer of the Exchequer, and Henry Pelham, Esq one of the Commis∣sioners for executing the office of Treasurer, Apr. 2	1721
An act for granting the people called Quakers, a form of affirmation, removing the difficulties they objected to relating to taking an oath, Feb. 12.
Great rejoicings on account of dissolving the septennial parliament, March 13.
Princess Amelia and Carolina inoculated for the small-pox, Apr. 17	1722
John Churchill, Duke and Earl of Marlborough, died at Windsor, June 13.
Christopher Layer, Esq and Charles Earl of Or∣rery, and William Lord North and Grey, com∣mitted to the Tower for high treason, Sept. 20, 28, 29.

Lewis XIV. of France, crowned at Rheims, Oct. 15.
The Bishop of Rochester sent to the Tower, April 24	1723
The King embarks for Holland, June 3.
Philip V. King of Spain, resigns his crown to his eldest son, Don Lewis, Jan. 4.
Pope Innocent XIII. died, Feb. 25.
Henry Pelham, Esq made secretary at war of all his Majesty's forces in Great Britain, March 28	1724
A severe edict published in France against the Protestants, May 14.
Dr. Henry Sacheverell died, June 5.
Mr. Wood had a patent for coining Irish half-pence, July 24.
Thomas Parker, Earl of Macclesfield, impeached of misdemeanors, May 6	1725
Thomas Parker, Earl of Macclesfield, paid his fine of thirty thousand pounds, and released from the Tower, July 22.
The Spaniards invest Gibraltar, and open the trenches before it, Feb. 22	1726
Sir Isaac Newton, Knt. died, in the eighty-fifth year of his age, March 23.
George I. King of Great Britain, Elector of Bruns∣wick Lunenburgh, &c. died at Osnaburg in Germany, being in the sixty-eighth year of his age, and thirteenth year of his reign, June 10	1727

TABLE XX.

	A. D.
George II. proclaimed King the 27th of June	1727
Duke of Newcastle and Lord Townshend, secre∣taries of states; Sir Robert Walpole, Chancel∣lor of the Exchequer.
Arthur Onslow, Esq chosen speaker, January 23, 1727-8.

The Spaniards continue their depredations in America, Jan.	1728
His Majesty purchases Carolina for 800,000 l.	1729
The excise scheme on wines and tobacco brought into the house, March 14	1733
The Princess of Wales delivered of a Prince the 24th of May, who was christened George, our present most gracious Sovereign	1738
Admiral Vernon took Porto-Bello, Nov. 5	1739
Lord Cathcart and Admiral Vernon take Fort Charge from the Spaniards, March 24	1740
His Majesty takes the part of the Queen of Hun∣gary against the King of Prussia.
The Spnniards invade Georgia, and are repulsed	1742
The Earl of Stair sent into Flanders. The bat∣tle of Dettingen, June 16	1743
The unsuccessful engagement off Toulon, be∣tween Admiral Mathews's fleet and the com∣bined squadrons of France and Spain	1744
Admiral Anson returns from his voyage round the world.
Charles VII. dies	1745
War declared against France, March 10.
The battle of Fontenoy, April 30.
The Chevalier lands in Scotland, July 27.
Enters Edinburgh, Aug. 17.
Defeats Sir John Cope, Sept. 21.
Takes Carlisle, Nov. 15.
The battle of Falkirk, Jan. 17.
The decisive victory over the rebels at Culloden, April 15.
An unsuccessful attempt against Port l'Orient	1746
Anson and Warren intercept the French fleet, May 30	1747
The battle of Val, June 21.
The general peace by the treaty of Aix la Cha∣pelle proclaimed at London, Feb. 22	1749
Forts erected at the back of the British settle∣ments in America	1752
Attempts to seize Nova Scotia	1754
Boscawen sent to protect that province	1755

Braddock defeated, July 9.
Hessians called over to defend the English	1756
Minorca taken.
War declared against France, May 17.
Canada conquered	1759
King George II. dies, Oct. 25, aged 77, after a reign of 34 years	1760

TABLE XXI.

	A. D.
Our present Sovereign George III. succeeds to the throne, October 25.
His nuptials solemnized, Sept. 11	1761
His coronation, September 22.
Preliminary articles of peace signed at Fontain∣bleau, November 3.

FINIS.