A continuation of the secret history of White-hall from the abdication of the late K. James in 1688 to the year 1696 writ at the request of a noble lord ... : the whole consisting of secret memoirs ... : published from the original papers : together with The tragical history of the Stuarts ... / by D. Jones ...

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A continuation of the secret history of White-hall from the abdication of the late K. James in 1688 to the year 1696 writ at the request of a noble lord ... : the whole consisting of secret memoirs ... : published from the original papers : together with The tragical history of the Stuarts ... / by D. Jones ...

Author

Jones, D. (David), fl. 1676-1720.

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London :: Printed, and are to be sold, by R. Baldwin ...,

MDCXCVII [1697]

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Great Britain -- History -- Stuarts, 1603-1714.

Scotland -- History -- Stuarts, to the Union, 1371-1707.

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"A continuation of the secret history of White-hall from the abdication of the late K. James in 1688 to the year 1696 writ at the request of a noble lord ... : the whole consisting of secret memoirs ... : published from the original papers : together with The tragical history of the Stuarts ... / by D. Jones ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A47020.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 28, 2025. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• THE PREFACE.
• LETTER I. The Author revives his Correspondence with his Lordship, and intimates his resolves to continue it, as time and his circumstances would admit of, with some account of the Fears and Terrors the French Papists are in of the Prince of Orange, as he is called by them.
• LETTER II. Of the Dauphin's Dissatisfaction with his Command of the French Army in Ger∣many, and what use might be made of it by the Confederates, if dexte∣rously managed.
• LETTER III. Of the Declaration of War made by France against the Crown of Spain, after she had endeavoured in vain to keep the Spaniards neutral.
• LETTER IV. Of Cardinal d' Este his solliciting the Pope for Money for the late King James, and his proposing a Croisade for the restoration of him to his Throne again.
• LETTER V. Of the Queen of Spains Death, the formal Story made in France of her being Poisoned, and a Marriage feared be∣tween his Catholick Majesty, and the Infanta of Portugal.
• LETTER VI Of some secret Designs hatching against the Establisht Government in Eng∣land.
• LETTER VII. A Summary of the Articles concluded on the French King's part, for restoring of the Late King James to his lost Do∣minions.
• LETTER VIII. Articles stipulated on King James's his part, for the giving up Ireland, &c. to the French, upon his recovery of Eng∣land and Scotland.
• LETTER IX. Some Reflections upon King James's League with the French King; with an account of some further terms a∣greed upon between them, in relation to the English Protestants in Ireland.
• LETTER X. Of King James's Army in Ireland, and Duke Schomberg's, with Cardinal Bouillon's Motion for a Contribution for the support of the former.
• LETTER XI. Of the Resolutions taken in France to support King James in Ireland, and to reinforce his Army with a good bo∣dy of French Troops, &c.
• LETTER XII. Of Count de Lauzune's going for Ire∣land, and of some secret designs of the French King against some place in the Netherlands.
• LETTER XIII. Of the Death of Madam the Dauphiness, and an account of the deportment of the French Court thereupon.
• LETTER XIV. An exact Account of the number and strength of the French Fleet in 1690, with some intimations of a Conspira∣cy formed against the Government at the same time.
• LETTER XV. Of the late King James his arrival in France out of Ireland, and of an un∣certain report raised of King William's Death, occasioning much ridiculous Mirth and Bon-fires at Paris, &c.
• LETTER XVI. The French Court mightily concerned at the Proceedings of the Duke of Savoy, and his declaring for the Confederates, yet try one stratagem more to bring him to their side.
• LETTER XVII. Of close designs hatched in France, of Monsieur de Tourville, and the ru∣mour of his being disgraced for his Conduct, and of the reports concerning the Dauphins's marrying again.
• LETTER XVIII. Reports in France of a design formed in Spain, to give up the Netherlands to some Forreign Prince, &c.
• LETTER XIX. Of the City of Mons besieged by the Arms of France, and the reason why King James was not there.
• LETTER XX. Of the Raising of the Siege of Coni, and of the Death of that Grand Minister of State to the French King, the Mar∣quis of Louvois; and also of Monsieur Barillon's, once the French King's Am∣bassador in England.
• LETTER XXI. Of Monsieur Pompone's being made Mi∣nister of State: And of some Particu∣lars relating to a Peace, said to be offered by France, to the Confederates.
• LETTER XXII. Of a Couple of Pamphlets spread up and down Paris; One Intituled, A Letter from a Burgher of Norinburg, to a Deputy of the Dyet at Ratisbonne: And the other, From my Lord— an English Privy-Counsellor, to the Earl of P— with an Intent to fo∣ment Divisions amongst us.
• LETTER XXIII. Of the great Preparations made in France, for the Carrying on the War against the Confederates in the Year 1692.
• LETTER XXIV. Of King James's Declaration in the year, 1692. and his Invitations to the Eng∣lish Nobility to come into France, to be present at his Queen's Delivery, &c.
• LETTER XXV. The French Artifices to raise a mistrust in England, of the Officers of the Eng∣lish Fleet in 1692.
• LETTER XXVI. Of the French magnifying their power at Sea, after the fight in May, 1692. &c. and of the late Queen Mary's be∣ing brought to Bed at St. Germans of a Daughter.
• LETTER XXVII. Conjectures of the French designs in the year 1693. against the Allies, and of their Incendiaries to burn the Con∣federate Cities.
• LETTER XXVIII. Of Proposals of Peace made by France to the Emperor and Empire in the year, 1693.
• LETTER XXIX. Of Libells in France against the Govern∣ment, &c.
• LETTER XXX. Of the King James his receiving an ac∣count of Queen Mary's death, &c.
• LETTER XXXI. Of the Successes of the Confederates in Flanders, Italy, &c. in the year, 1695. with some account of the de∣signs of France for the succeeding year, and of the Authors design to return to England.
• title page
• THE Tragical History OF THE STUARTS.