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The History of England from the Accession of James II.

CHAPTER XVIII
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A great camp was formed on the down which overlooks Portsmouth.

The militia all over the kingdom was called out.

Two Westminster regiments and six City regiments, making up a force of thirteen thousand fighting men, were arrayed in Hyde Park, and passed in review before the Queen.
The trainbands of Kent, Sussex, and Surrey marched down to the coast.
Watchmen were posted by the beacons.

Some nonjurors were imprisoned, some disarmed, some held to bail.

The house of the Earl of Huntingdon, a noted Jacobite, was searched.


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