The Power of James at the Height--His Foreign Policy--His Plans of Domestic Government; the Habeas Corpus Act--The Standing Army--Designs in favour of the Roman Catholic Religion--Violation of the Test Act--Disgrace of Halifax; general Discontent--Persecution of the French Huguenots--Effect of that Persecution in England--Meeting of Parliament; Speech of the King; an Opposition formed in the House of Commons--Sentiments of Foreign Governments--Committee of the Commons on the King's Speech--Defeat of the Government--Second Defeat of the Government; the King reprimands the Commons--Coke committed by the Commons for Disrespect to the King--Opposition to the Government in the Lords; the Earl of Devonshire--The Bishop of London--Viscount Mordaunt--Prorogation--Trials of Lord Gerard and of Hampden--Trial of Delamere--Effect of his Acquittal--Parties in the Court; Feeling of the Protestant Tories--Publication of Papers found in the Strong Box of Charles II.--Feeling of the respectable Roman Catholics--Cabal of violent Roman Catholics; Castlemaine--Jermyn; White; Tyrconnel--Feeling of the Ministers of Foreign Governments--The Pope and the Order of Jesus opposed to each other--The Order of Jesus--Father Petre--The King's Temper and Opinions--The King encouraged in his Errors by Sunderland--Perfidy of Jeffreys--Godolphin; the Queen; Amours of the King--Catharine Sedley--Intrigues of Rochester in favour of Catharine Sedley--Decline of Rochester's Influence--Castelmaine sent to Rome; the Huguenots illtreated by James--The Dispensing Power--Dismission of Refractory Judges--Case of Sir Edward Hales--Roman Catholics authorised to hold Ecclesiastical Benefices;--Sclater; Walker--The Deanery of Christchurch given to a Roman Catholic--Disposal of Bishoprics--Resolution of James to use his Ecclesiastical Supremacy against the Church--His Difficulties--He creates a new Court of High Commission--Proceedings against the Bishop of London--Discontent excited by the Public Display of Roman Catholic--Rites and Vestments--Riots--A Camp formed at Hounslow--Samuel Johnson--Hugh Speke--Proceedings against Johnson--Zeal of the Anglican Clergy against Popery--The Roman Catholic Divines overmatched--State of Scotland--Queensberry--Perth and Melfort--Favour shown to the Roman Catholic Religion in Scotland--Riots at Edinburgh--Anger of the King; his Plans concerning Scotland--Deputation of Scotch Privy Councillors sent to London--Their Negotiations with the King--Meeting of the Scotch Estates; they prove refractory--They are adjourned; arbitrary System of Government in Scotland--Ireland--State of the Law on the Subject of Religion--Hostility of Races--Aboriginal Peasantry; aboriginal Aristocracy--State of the English Colony--Course which James ought to have followed--His Errors--Clarendon arrives in Ireland as Lord Lieutenant--His Mortifications; Panic among the Colonists--Arrival of