The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 1John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell The University Press, 1929 - Commonwealth countries |
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Page 319
... continued her encroachments in time of peace , lent additional weight to the third great consequence of the war , the rise of William of Orange . The Protestant prince , scion of a great German house , who had saved Holland , who ...
... continued her encroachments in time of peace , lent additional weight to the third great consequence of the war , the rise of William of Orange . The Protestant prince , scion of a great German house , who had saved Holland , who ...
Page 409
... continued to meet . Laws were passed , taxes were levied for local expenditure , and the business of shaping the constitution and procedure of the Assembly was continued . When- ever peace came , as at Ryswick in 1697 , the separatist ...
... continued to meet . Laws were passed , taxes were levied for local expenditure , and the business of shaping the constitution and procedure of the Assembly was continued . When- ever peace came , as at Ryswick in 1697 , the separatist ...
Page 426
... continued in allegiance to the King , a point it attempted to prove , much as Virginia had done in 1736 , by drafting a history of its constitutional rights . In this document it said that it held the same position in the constitution ...
... continued in allegiance to the King , a point it attempted to prove , much as Virginia had done in 1736 , by drafting a history of its constitutional rights . In this document it said that it held the same position in the constitution ...
Contents
CHAPTER II | 22 |
The Newfoundland Fishery | 29 |
The Western Adventurers | 35 |
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