The History of England, Vol. 4 of 4 - Paperback

Excerpt from The History of England, Vol. 4 of 4: From the Earliest Times to the Death of George II

Claim to extenfive views, or confil'tency of de lign. The intellec'ts of this prince were natu rally weak; and the education he had received rendered them {till more feeble. He there fore conceived the impraéticable project of reigning in the arbitrary manner of his prede cei'for, and of changing the eliablifhed reli gion of his country, at a time when his perfon was hated, and the ei'tablilhed religion pallion ately loved. The people, though they de fpifed the adminifiration of his predecefi'or, yet loved the king. They were willing to bear with the faults of one, whofe whole be haviour was a continued influx of afl'ability but they were by no means willing to grant the fame indulgence to James, as they knew him to' be gloomy, proud, bigotted, and cruel. His reign began with acts of imprudence. All the cufioms, and the greater part of the excife, that had been voted to the late king for his life only, were levied by James, without a new a& for that purpofe. He likewife went openly to mais with all the enfigns of his dig nity o, and even fent one Caryl as his agent to Rome to make fubmiflions to the pope, and to pave the way for the re-admifiion of England into the bofom of the catholic church. Thefe were but inaufpicious fymptoms in the very beginning.

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