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MEMOIRS
OF
THE LIFE AND TIMES
DANIEL DE FOE:
CONTAINING
A REVIEW OF HIS WRITINGS,
AND
HIS OPINIONS UPON A VARIETY OF IMPORTANT MATTERS, CIVIL AND ECCLESIASTICAL.
BY WALTER WILSON, ESQ.
OF THE INNER TEMPLE.
IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. II.
LONDON:
HURST, CHANCE, AND CO.
16425.4
HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
BRADEURY AND DENT, PRINTERS, OXFORD ARMS PASSAGE, WARWICK LANE.
CONTENTS.
VOLUME II.
CHAPTER I.
Reflections upon the Reign of Queen Anne.-Her Accession
to the Throne.-Debasement of Religion.-Political Changes.
-Triumph of Toryism.-Intemperance of Churchmen.-De
Foe's Account of the Opening of the Reign. The Queen's
Zeal for the Church.-Its Effect upon the Clergy.-Revival
of May-poles.-De Foe's Account of the Excesses of the
Times.-Violence of Churchmen repressed by the Queen.-
Discontent thereupon.-Some of the Ministers desert the
High Party.-Bad Spirit of the Commons.-War Declared.
-Unsuccessful Expedition to Cadiz.-De Foe's Poem upon
the Spanish Descent.-Dissolution of Parliament.—Meeting
of a new one.-Insult to the Memory of King William.-
Satirized by Mr. Walsh.-Revival of the Royal Touch.-
Origin of the Usage.-Anecdotes of its Practice in former
Reigns.--De Foe's Solution of the Spell
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CHAPTER II.
Thirtieth of January Preachers.-Satirized by De Foe in his
"New 'Test of the Church of England's Loyalty."-Account
of his Work.-Animadverted upon by Leslie and Drake.--
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