REIGNED FROM A.D. 1660 TO A.D. 1685.

Y Monk1 restor'd, King CHARLES regains

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Accession to the throne, and reigns

Belov'd by some, though censur'd much;
He married Kate, and fought the Dutch!
Then peace concluded with his foes:
And Clarendon 3 in exile goes.

A proud Cabal assumes command,
And dark designs disturb the land;
While England wept and Freedom sigh'd,
Russell and Sydney nobly died!

The King himself, with care worn down,
Expires, and leaves to York the Crown.

General Monk, afterwards created Duke of Albemarle. 2 Catherine, a Princess of Portugal.

3 Lord Chancellor.

4

A pretended plot of Titus Oates; another, called the Meal-tub Plot; and a real one called the Rye-house Plot, for which Lord W. Russell and Algernon Sydney were beheaded. Aged fifty-five, in the twenty-fifth of his reign.

REIGNED FROM A.D. 1685 TO A.D. 1689.

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OW JAMES1 THE SECOND mounts the throne,

And soon his Popish zeal makes known. Young Monmouth arms, on Sedgemoor's field, But to the scaffold 's doom'd to yield;

While Kirke and Jeffreys,3 England's shame,
Disgrace the soldier's, judge's name.
Flush'd with success, the King proceeds
To introduce his Popish creeds ;*

While monks and jesuits round him throng,
He finds, too late, he's acted wrong;

Is forc'd to abdicate and fly,5

In France an exil'd King to die.

1 Duke of York, brother to the late King.

2 Monmouth was an illegitimate son of Charles II.

3 A barbarous commander, and a sanguinary judge.

He endeavoured by the vilest treachery and breach of

faith, to re-establish the Roman Catholic religion.

5 He abdicated the throne and fled to France, A.D. 1689, having reigned four years. He died in 1701, aged sixtyeight.

REIGNED TOGETHER FROM A.D. 1689 TO A.D. 1694.
WILLIAM ALONE, A.D. 1694 TO A.D. 1702.

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"ILLIAM THE THIRD, of Nassau's House,
With Royal MARY1 as his spouse,

As King and Queen their sceptres join,
Whilst James is routed at the Boyne.2
At Killycrankie's 3 famous fight,

The vanquish'd Scots are put to flight;
And WILLIAM reigns with great applause,
Confirming England's rights and laws!
His Queen expires; he reigns alone,
And adds new splendour to the throne;
Defeats the French upon the main,
And, crown'd with glory, clos'd his reign.5

I William Prince of Orange, and Mary, daughter of James the Second, the late King.

2 The battle of the Boyne, in Ireland, A.D. 1690.

3 The battle of Killycrankie, A.D. 1691.

At the battle of La Hogue, A.D. 1692.

5 The King died of a fall from his horse, A.D. 1702, in the fifty-second year of his age, having reigned thirteen years.