OF THE UNITED STATES, FROM THE DISCOVERY OF THE AMERICAN CONTINENT TO THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. BY GEORGE BANCROFT, FORMERLY AMBASSADOR AT THE COURT OF ST. JAMES'S. IN SEVEN VOLUMES. VOL. IV. A New Edition. LONDON: ROUTLEDGE, WARNE, & ROUTLEDGE, FARRINGDON STREET. Protestantism ceases to be a cause of revolutions. Right of private judgment affirmed. Progress of scepticism. France. Checks on the royal power. Parliament. Opinion. Vol- England. Its limited monarchy. Its Church. House of Lords. House of Commons. Its administrative system. Its literature. Its courts of law. Its system of education. Life in towns. Life British dominion in the East Indies. In America. Ireland. Its conquest The Irish parliament. The Church. Colonization of the Scotch. Ireland after the Restoration. After the Revolution Disfranchisement of the Catholics. Their disquali- Laws prohibiting their education. Their worship. Their possessing lands. Their keeping arms. |