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The earlier life and the chief earlier works of Daniel Defoe
The earlier life and the chief earlier works of Daniel Defoe Author:Daniel Defoe Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE EARLIER LIFE Op DANIEL DEFOE. CHAPTER IV. (1702-1703.) pEFOE, at the end of the reign of William III., was living at " Hackney, where the parish r... more »egister has record of the baptism on the 24th of December 1701 of "Sophia, daughter of Daniel Defoe, by Mary his wife." The name Defoe has now taken the place of Foe, and Daniel Defoe is still managing the brick and pantile works at Tilbury. Queen Anne came to the throne in the thirty-eighth year of her age, and was crowned on the 23rd of April 1702. She looked upon the Tories as her friends, and she was a faithful and well- meaning daughter of the Church. She maintained the alliance against France, and declared war on the 4th of May. Parliament was dissolved, and a new House returned. In the new House the Tories were double the number of the Whigs. The memory of King William was deliberately slighted in the Address to the Queen, which said that by her wise and happy conduct she had retrieved the honour of the nation. Objection was made to the word "retrieved," but it was retained by the vote of a large majority. Action was then taken against the Dissenters by a bill againstOccasional Conformity. All office-holders who had taken the Sacrament as required by the Act passed in 1673, and who went afterwards to any Dissenters' meeting, or any meeting for religious worship that was not according to the liturgy of the Church of England, where five persons were present more than the family, were by this new bill to be disabled from holding their employments, and each was to be fined £100, besides £$ for every day in which he continued to hold his office after having been at such a meeting. They were also to be made incapable of holding any other public office until after a whole year's conformity to the Church had been proved ...« less