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Excerpt from The History of England, Vol. 9: Continued From the Late Right Honorable Sir James Mackintosh, L. L. D. M. P
The French king meanwhile had brought his re sources into action against Spain, the empire, Holland, and England, by land and sea, upon a vast scale, with surprising vigour. He had four armies and his navy, which had advanced prodigiously in seamanship and number, since the commencement of his reign, came out of Brest, Toulon, and Rochefort, to reinforce James in Ireland, and favour the secret movements of the dis affected in Britain.
The Whigs, both Scotch and English 1, were now thoroughly disgusted with the king whom they had so recently made. Whilst the English intrigued, the Scotch conspired against the new settlement. Montgomery, Ross, and Annandale, who had been among the fore most in helping William to the crown of Scotland, corresponded with the jacobites in England, queen Mary d'este in France, and James himself in Ireland. Their scheme in Scotland was to combine the presbyterians and tories under the mask of parliamentary Opposition; and, in order to insure a majority against the, govern ment, the nonjuring partisans of J ames - having a secret understanding with him - no longer scrupled to take the new oaths.
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