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to France, where he rejoined the Queen.

There had been a council in his absence, of the lords, and the
authorities of London. When the Prince came, on the day after the King's
departure, he summoned the Lords to meet him, and soon afterwards, all
those who had served in any of the Parliaments of King Charles the
Second. It was finally resolved by these authorities that the throne was
vacant by the conduct of King James the Second; that it was inconsistent
with the safety and welfare of this Protestant kingdom, to be governed by
a Popish prince; that the Prince and Princess of Orange should be King
and Queen during their lives and the life of the survivor of them; and
that their children should succeed them, if they had any. That if they
had none, the Princess Anne and her children should succeed; that if she
had none, the heirs of the Prince of Orange should succeed.

On the thirteenth of January, one thousand six hundred and eighty-nine,
the Prince and Princess, sitting on a throne in Whitehall, bound
themselves to these conditions. The Protestant religion was established
in England, and England's great and glorious Revolution was complete.

CHAPTER XXXVII

I have now arrived at the close of my little history. The events which
succeeded the famous Revolution of one thousand six hundred and eighty-
eight, would neither be easily related nor easily understood in such a
book as this.

William and Mary reigned together, five years. After the death of his
good wife, William occupied the throne, alone, for seven years longer.
During his reign, on the sixteenth of September, one thousand seven
hundred and one, the poor weak creature who had once been James the
Second of England, died in France. In the meantime he had done his
utmost (which was not much) to cause William to be assassinated, and to
regain his lost dominions. James's son was declared, by the French King,
the rightful King of England; and was called in France THE CHEVALIER
SAINT GEORGE, and in England THE PRETENDER. Some infatuated people in
England, and particularly in Scotland, took up the Pretender's cause from
time to time--as if the country had not had Stuarts enough!--and many
lives were sacrificed, and much misery was occasioned. King William died
on Sunday, the seventh of March, one thousand seven hundred and two, of
the consequences of an accident occasioned by his horse stumbling with
him. He was always a brave, patriotic Prin