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- Frontmatter
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- BOOK XX WILLIAM III AND PARLIAMENT DURING THE WAR WITH FRANCE, 169O–1697
- BOOK XXI THE LATER YEARS OF WILLIAM III, 1697—1702
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAP. I Relations between France and England after the conclusion of Peace. The Partition treaties
- CHAP. II Parliamentary proceedings in the Session of 1697, 1698
- CHAP. III Reduction of the Army in the Session of 1698, 1699
- CHAP. IV Changes in Court and State. Resumption of the Irish Land-grants, 1699, 1700
- CHAP. V Affairs in Ireland, Scotland, and North America
- CHAP. VI Origin and conditions of the Hanoverian Succession
- CHAP. VII Change in European politics. The Session of 1701 in relation to this change
- CHAP. VIII Conflicts between Tories and Whigs. Negotiations with France in the spring and summer of 1701
- CHAP. IX Breach with France. The sixth Parliament of William III
- CHAP. X Constitutional opposition between Whigs and Tories. Death of King William III
- BOOK XXII REVIEW OF ENGLISH HISTORY TO THE YEAR 1760
CHAP. I - Relations between France and England after the conclusion of Peace. The Partition treaties
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 June 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- BOOK XX WILLIAM III AND PARLIAMENT DURING THE WAR WITH FRANCE, 169O–1697
- BOOK XXI THE LATER YEARS OF WILLIAM III, 1697—1702
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAP. I Relations between France and England after the conclusion of Peace. The Partition treaties
- CHAP. II Parliamentary proceedings in the Session of 1697, 1698
- CHAP. III Reduction of the Army in the Session of 1698, 1699
- CHAP. IV Changes in Court and State. Resumption of the Irish Land-grants, 1699, 1700
- CHAP. V Affairs in Ireland, Scotland, and North America
- CHAP. VI Origin and conditions of the Hanoverian Succession
- CHAP. VII Change in European politics. The Session of 1701 in relation to this change
- CHAP. VIII Conflicts between Tories and Whigs. Negotiations with France in the spring and summer of 1701
- CHAP. IX Breach with France. The sixth Parliament of William III
- CHAP. X Constitutional opposition between Whigs and Tories. Death of King William III
- BOOK XXII REVIEW OF ENGLISH HISTORY TO THE YEAR 1760
Summary
The Peace of Ryswick had one direct result of the utmost importance: England now stood by the side of France, as independent, and as legitimate a power as her neighbour. The further combinations in the development of European relations would depend on the attitude which the two powers–the two princes–henceforth might assume towards one another; and whether they came to any fresh understandings or not.
Over all public affairs at this time there brooded the forecast of a coming commotion. Charles II of Spain could not live much longer: he had no offspring; and consequently the succession to the greatest inheritance the West had ever seen must soon be vacant. The two powers which claimed it showed plainly enough that they clung to their respective pretensions. In his treaty with Victor Amadeus Louis XIV had originally inserted an article in which the idea of bartering Savoy for Milan (which would in that case fall in to him) appears: this was an object of French politics in old and later times alike. In the negotiations with the maritime powers he expressed his willingness to hand over the Spanish Netherlands to the Elector of Bavaria, so as to guarantee the security of the United Provinces; speaking just as if his right of inheritance were indubitable.
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- A History of EnglandPrincipally in the Seventeenth Century, pp. 154 - 168Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1875