REIGNED FROM A.D. 1702 TO A.D. 1714.

THE

British Crown to ANNE1 descends,

And well its honour she defends.

TO GEORGE of Denmark soon we find,
This Queen in happy marriage join'd.
Marlborough the brave receives command,
And beats the French upon the land;

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While Rooke and Shovel nobly gain
Complete dominion o'er the main.

This Queen gave Spanish pride a shock,
Her forces took Gibraltar's rock :

But factions plagu'd her latter end;
While Whigs and Tories3 fierce contend,
She dies amidst the party flames

Of Brunswick's right and Stuart's claims.

The Princess Anne, a sister of the late Queen Mary. 2 At the battles of Ramilies, Blenheim, Oudenarde, and Malplaquet.

3 The disputes of the Whigs and Tories are said to have embittered and shortened the Queen's days.

In the fiftieth year of her age and thirteenth of her reign. She was the last sovereign of the House of Stuart.

REIGNED FROM A.D. 1714 TO A.D. 1727.

T

GEORGE THE FIRST,' of Brunswick's race,

The factious Tories now give place.

He mounts the throne by legal right,
Resolv'd against his foes to fight;
While party feuds and furious zeal,
For diff'rent interests still prevail.
He lays the fiend Rebellion low,
And triumphs over ev'ry foe.

Mars the Pretender's rash designs,

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And rebel Lords 3 to death consigns;

And making peace with France and Spain,
At Osnaburgh concludes his reign.1

1 George, the Elector of Hanover, succeeded as the next Protestant heir, by the "Act of Settlement."

? The son of James the Second.

3 The Earls of Derwentwater and Kenmuir, and a number of other gentlemen, were beheaded; and above one thousand persons were transported to North America.

The King was taken ill on a visit to his German States, and died A.D. 1727, in the sixty-eighth year of his age, and thirteenth of his reign.