GEORGE I. The Stuart Papers, edited by Swift's Drapier's Letters, etc. GEORGE II Hervey's Memoirs of the Reign of George II., 1727-1742. Horace GEORGE III. Horace Walpole's Memoirs of the Reign of George III., 17601771. The Letters of Junius. The Grenville Papers. The Bedford Correspondence. Buckingham's Memoirs of the Court and Cabinet of George III. Russell's Life of Fox. Thackeray's Life of Chatham. Stanhope's Life of Pitt. Wilberforce's Lije. Malmesbury's Diary and Correspondence. The Cornwallis Correspondence, 1770-1805. Napier's Peninsula War. Life of Bamford the Radical. Lord Dudley's Letters, 1814-1823. Bell and Stapleton's Lives of Canning. It is not, however, necessary to give a detailed list of authorities, which would be little more than a catalogue of the lives, letters, and memoirs of most of the important men of the time. Of these the number is constantly being augmented, and it is from them and the contemporary tracts, monographs, pamphlets, and fugitive writings that the details of the History must be drawn. 1692 Marlborough, suspected of treason, deprived of his offices, CONTENTS PAGE The Parliament reduces the standing army, 1698 Coalition of the rival East India Companies, William's attention directed to the Spanish succession, The Country Party in the new Parliament, Tory Parliament, 1704 Disputes on the Aylesbury election, Dismissal of Nottingham, Jersey, and Seymour, 1705 Gradual introduction of Whig ministers, Harley's intrigues against Marlborough, 1708 Harley and his colleagues resign, 1709 Insecurity of Marlborough's position, |