Resolution and conduct of the Prince of Orange set forth in the Proclamation of William and Mary-Character of William-Aspirants for office-The king's ministers-The judgesJealousy of William's Dutch friends-The Convention declared to be a Parliament-Oath of Allegiance-Refused by some spiritual and lay peers-Nonjurors-A Supply votedThe principle of Appropriation established-Comprehension Bill-Reform of the LiturgyThe Test Act-The Toleration Act-High and Low Church-Mutiny at Ipswich-The first Mutiny Act-Suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act-Bill of Indemnity postponedThe Coronation Oath-The Coronation-War with France.

"WHEREAS it hath pleased Almighty God, in his great mercy to this kingdom, to vouchsafe us a merciful deliverance from Popery and arbitrary power; and that our preservation is due, next under God, to the resolution and conduct of his highness the prince of Orange." Such were the opening words of the proclamation, which, on the 13th of February, 1689, announced to the people of England that William and Mary were king and queen of these realms. The same "resolution and conduct" which had delivered England from the most imminent dangers, had to support the man who was acknowledged as her deliverer, amidst perils and difficulties of which not the least were the treachery, the self-seeking, the ingratitude of the greater number of those who had called him to rule over them. For thirteen years this Dutch William almost stood alone as the representative of what was heroic in England. He is not a hero to look upon, according to the vulgar notion of the hero. "He had a thin and weak body. He was always asthmatical, and the dregs of the small-pox falling on his lungs, he had a constant