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Compleat and Impartial

HISTORY

Of All the Memorable

naval expeditions

transactions

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ENGLISH NATION;

Both Publick and Mercantile, &c\

BOOK III.

an Account of ail the memorable Naval Expeditions andsrantactions of the English, from the Beginning of KingJames, Is Reign, to the Revolution in 1688.

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Expeditions and 'Transactions of the English, with other memorable Occur-rences, during the first Tear of the Reign of King James J.

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Breath, on the four and and natural Heir to Elizabeth , an & ^twentieth of March , as besides a Parliamentary Right, J irI have said, at the Con- tue of the Act, which secured t e rownclsion of the foregoing to Henry VII, and his Heirs. I e ounBook, than the Council cil, therefore, without Hesitation con.met to consult about the Measures that eluded, that He, and only He, was,were proper to betaken. TheSucces- and ought to be, acknowledge orsion, which was the chief Point they their Sovereign they immediately irnparhad to discuss, was hardly Matter of ted this their Resolution to thp orDispute. The late Queen, who could Mayor of London, and the new Bang was *never be brought to nominate Her Sue- claimed, at the ulual 1 laces, oy ti rcessor till Her latter End, did at last Name of J ames, I- fe Hours afer thedeclare it Her Desire, that “James , King Queen’s Death.

of Scotland, should ascend the Throne Sir Charles Percy, and Thomas Som-after Her Death. Her Will, being me'rfet, being dispatched by the Coun-opened immediately after her Death, 5 H Q !

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