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The History of England from the Accession of James II.

CHAPTER XV
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The Tories moved the previous question.

The House divided; and the Whigs carried their point by a hundred and ninety votes to a hundred and seventy-three, [561] The King watched these events with painful anxiety.

He was weary of his crown.

He had tried to do justice to both the contending parties; but justice would satisfy neither.

The Tories hated him for protecting the Dissenters.


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