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Compleat and Impartial

Of All the Memorable

NAVAL EXPEDITIONS

AND

TRANSACTIONS

ENGLISH NATION;

Both Publick and Mercantile, &V.BOOK VI.

Gi ving an Account of all the memorable Naval Expeditions andTraniactions of the British Nation, with other Occurrencesfrom the Death of Queen Ann, to the Conclusion of the Year*1754. '

C H A P. I.

Naval Expeditions and TransaSlions of the BritisliN ation, with other Occurrencesduring the firs four Tears of the Reign of King George I. (a) >

UE EN Ann dying, asI have said, at the Con-clusion of the foregoingBook, on the first ofAugust, in the Morn-ing, the Lords, and ci-thers, of Her Majesty’smost Honourable Privy Council, imme-diately assembled, at the Palace of St.fames, (f)

The seven Persons, on whom theAdministration of the Government, dur-ing the King’s Absence, devolved, by

fa) The Materials, from which this Sixth7W j of our Naval History is compiled, consistingchieflyfor wholly, of single Pieces, Manuscripts,Original Journals, and the like, no Authors are,or can be expected to be named ; I can, there-fr-e only assure my Readers, in general, that myRelations are built upon the most authentick, and

the Act: of the fourth and fifth of QueenAnn, were the Archbishop of Canterbu-ry , the Lord High Chancellour, theLord President, the Lord High Treasu-rer, the Lord Privy Seal, the sirst LordCommistioner of the Admiralty, andthe Lord Chief Justice of the King’sBench.

The fame Act having impowered thenext Successor to nominate as many Per-sons as he Ihould think fit, to be addedto the aforesaid seven Lords-Justices,or Regents, the Lord Archbilliop of

Canterbury

most, if not all, of them, indisputable Autho-rities.

[b) The fame Afternoon, Both Houses otParliament met, pursuant to an Act, for that P ur .pose, at Westminster ; And that, and the threefollowing Days, the Members of Both Housesqualified themselves, according to Law.

1714.