Stanhope's _Reign of Queen Anne_. Coxe's _Life of Marlborough_. Marlborough's _Letters and Despatches_, 1702-1712. _Bolingbroke's Correspondence._ _Life of Sacheverel._ GEORGE I. Swift's _Drapier's Letters_, etc. _The Stuart Papers_, edited by Glover. Coxe's _Life of Walpole_. Boyer's _Political State of Great Britain_. GEORGE II. Hervey's _Memoirs of the Reign of George II._, 1727-1742. Horace Walpole's _Memoirs of the Reign of George II._, 1751-1760. Doddington's _Diary_, 1749-1761. Waldegrave's _Memoirs_, 1754-1758. Southey's _Life of Wesley_. Philip's _Life and Times of Whitfield_. Johnstone's _Memoirs of the Rebellion of 1745_. GEORGE III. Horace Walpole's _Memoirs of the Reign of George III._, 1760-1771. _The Letters of Junius._ _The Grenville Papers._ _The Bedford Correspondence._ Buckingham's _Memoirs of the Court and Cabinet of George III._ Russell's _Life of Fox_. Thackeray's _Life of Chatham_. Stanhope's _Life of Pitt_. Wilberforce's _Life_. Malmesbury's _Diary and Correspondence_. _The Cornwallis Correspondence, 1770-1805._ Napier's _Peninsula War_. _Life of Bamford the Radical._ Lord Dudley's _Letters_, 1814-1823. Bell and Stapleton's _Lives of Canning_. It is not, however, necessary to give a detailed list of authorities, which would be little more than a catalogue of the lives, letters, and memoirs of most of the important men of the time. Of these the number is constantly being augmented, and it is from them and the contemporary tracts, monographs, pamphlets, and fugitive writings that the details of the History must be drawn. CONTENTS. WILLIAM AND MARY. 1689-1702. PAGE