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The History of England from the Accession of James II.

CHAPTER XI
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Three garters which happened to be at the disposal of the Crown were given to Devonshire, Ormond, and Schomberg.

Prince George was created Duke of Cumberland.

Several eminent men took new appellations by which they must henceforth be designated.

Danby became Marquess of Caermarthen, Churchill Earl of Marlborough, and Bentinck Earl of Portland.

Mordaunt was made Earl of Monmouth, not without some murmuring on the part of old Exclusionists, who still remembered with fondness their Protestant Duke, and who had hoped that his attainder would be reversed, and that his title would be borne by his descendants.


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