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A contemporaneous political memoir offers detailed, insider accounts of parliamentary debates, ministerial negotiations, scandals, elections, and colonial and legal controversies during the monarch's early reign. It combines narrative chronologies of events with vivid character sketches of leading politicians, court incidents, and public disturbances, and includes appended reflections on the literary climate of the period. The volume intersperses documentary extracts, opinionated commentary, and administrative correspondence to illuminate how personal character and factional maneuvering shaped policy and public life.
Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks were corrected.
Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained; occurrences of inconsistent hyphenation have not been changed.
“Massachusets” was mostly spelled that way throughout this book.