History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 3, Chapter 12), The by Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800 - 1859)

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Much of this chapter is taken up with the affairs of Ireland during the reign of James II. The Protestants and Catholics are having their usual disagreements and James is putting his pieces in place in an attempt to use the Irish to consolidate his own rather shaky position.