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- Frontmatter
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- BOOK XX WILLIAM III AND PARLIAMENT DURING THE WAR WITH FRANCE, 169O–1697
- BOOK XXI THE LATER YEARS OF WILLIAM III, 1697—1702
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAP. I Relations between France and England after the conclusion of Peace. The Partition treaties
- CHAP. II Parliamentary proceedings in the Session of 1697, 1698
- CHAP. III Reduction of the Army in the Session of 1698, 1699
- CHAP. IV Changes in Court and State. Resumption of the Irish Land-grants, 1699, 1700
- CHAP. V Affairs in Ireland, Scotland, and North America
- CHAP. VI Origin and conditions of the Hanoverian Succession
- CHAP. VII Change in European politics. The Session of 1701 in relation to this change
- CHAP. VIII Conflicts between Tories and Whigs. Negotiations with France in the spring and summer of 1701
- CHAP. IX Breach with France. The sixth Parliament of William III
- CHAP. X Constitutional opposition between Whigs and Tories. Death of King William III
- BOOK XXII REVIEW OF ENGLISH HISTORY TO THE YEAR 1760
CHAP. VII - Change in European politics. The Session of 1701 in relation to this change
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 June 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- BOOK XX WILLIAM III AND PARLIAMENT DURING THE WAR WITH FRANCE, 169O–1697
- BOOK XXI THE LATER YEARS OF WILLIAM III, 1697—1702
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAP. I Relations between France and England after the conclusion of Peace. The Partition treaties
- CHAP. II Parliamentary proceedings in the Session of 1697, 1698
- CHAP. III Reduction of the Army in the Session of 1698, 1699
- CHAP. IV Changes in Court and State. Resumption of the Irish Land-grants, 1699, 1700
- CHAP. V Affairs in Ireland, Scotland, and North America
- CHAP. VI Origin and conditions of the Hanoverian Succession
- CHAP. VII Change in European politics. The Session of 1701 in relation to this change
- CHAP. VIII Conflicts between Tories and Whigs. Negotiations with France in the spring and summer of 1701
- CHAP. IX Breach with France. The sixth Parliament of William III
- CHAP. X Constitutional opposition between Whigs and Tories. Death of King William III
- BOOK XXII REVIEW OF ENGLISH HISTORY TO THE YEAR 1760
Summary
Till late in the year 1700 the understanding between France and England, or rather between their two Kings, the one representing legitimacy and Catholicism, the other Protestantism and the English revolution, governed the movements of the world. The need for peace and the wish for its continuance prevailed over their great and permanent antagonisms.
The internal differences of England also had no small influence in this direction. The French ambassador often told Louis XIV that he believed, as things now stood, that William was the best King France could wish England to have. For he had no right by birth to the throne; he was not only a foreigner, but, thanks to his preference for the Dutch, to whom he entrusted all important business, he was disliked by the English, whose interests were opposed to those of Holland. The French King sometimes even thought that under the pressure of these home-disagreements, William might be brought to depend on him as his predecessors of the house of Stuart had done. Tallard did not go so far: he had a nearer view of persons and things. It seemed to him a sufficient foundation for his political aims, that the condition of things in England compelled William to be on good terms with France. For the King, who was so powerless in England, was so powerful in Holland and with the German princes, that any stipulation agreed on with him was sure to be carried out.
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- A History of EnglandPrincipally in the Seventeenth Century, pp. 235 - 251Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1875