Table of Contents
Introduction vi
Chapter 1 Restoration 1
Chapter 2 The Great Fire 13
Chapter 3 The Popish Plot 21
Chapter 4 The Rye House Plot and Other Conspiracies 30
Chapter 5 James's Failed Reign 36
Chapter 6 The King's Illegitimate Son 44
Chapter 7 The Monmouth Rebellion 50
Chapter 8 Monmouth's Capture and Execution 61
Chapter 9 Sedgemoor and its Aftermath 66
Chapter 10 The Bloody Assizes 72
Chapter 11 Invitation to Rule England 84
Chapter 12 Invasion 92
Chapter 13 Glorious Revolution 106
Chapter 14 Scottish Problems 111
Chapter 15 The Darien Gap Project 122
Chapter 16 Irish Problems 131
Chapter 17 The Battle of the Boyne 135
Chapter 18 The Ousting of the Jacobites 141
Chapter 19 William's Mid-Reign 145
Chapter 20 The Fenwick Plot 1696 153
Chapter 21 William's Last Days 161
Chapter 22 Marlborough's Victories at Schellenberg and Blenheim 166
Chapter 23 Marlborough's Later Victories 178
Chapter 24 The Maritime War of Spanish Succession 186
Chapter 25 Mrs Freeman and Mrs Morley 192
Bibliography 207
Index 209