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HISTORY

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THE EARLY PART OF THE REIGN

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JAMES THE SECOND;

WITH AN

INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER.

BY THE

RIGHT HON. CHARLES JAMES FOX.

TO WHICH IS ADDED

AN APPENDIX.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR WILLIAM MILLER, ALBEMARLE STREET;

BY WILLIAM SAVAGE, BEDFORD BURY.

1808.

68.987

TO THE READER.

MR. Fox was for some years engaged in an historical Work, which he did not live to complete. The curiosity excited by the knowledge that he was so employed, would be sufficient to justify the publication of any Fragment of his labours, even if it had been found in a more unfinished state than the chapters which compose the body of this volume. It is, therefore, conceived, that although the work is incomplete, any apology would be misplaced, and that in fact, I only fulfil the wishes of the public, in laying before them all that can now be obtained of a history so earnestly expected from the pen of Mr. Fox.

An explanation, however, of the circumstances

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