HISTORY and PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

House of Commons

FROM THE

RESTORATION PRESENT TIME.

TO THE

G The most remarkable Motions, SPEECHES, RE

SOLVES REPORTS and CONFERENCES to be met with in that Interval :

AS ALSO The most exact ESTIMATes of the Charge of Government ;

State of the PUBLIC REVENUE ; the Rise and Growth of the NATIONAL Debt, Expence of the WAR, Proceedings on Ways and MEANS, Speeches and MessAGES from the Throne, ADDRESSES, and REMONSTRANCES,

also the Numbers Pro and Con upon every Division, &c. Many of which Curious Particulars were never before printed,

Collected from the best AUTHORITIES,

Compared with the JOURNALS of the House ;
And illustrated with a great Variety of HISTORICAL and

EXPLANATORY Notes.
Together with a large APPENDIX,

CONTAINING
Exact Lists of every PARLIAMENT, the Names of the

Speakers, their several Posts under the Government; and other valuable, Supplemental Pieces.

VOL. IX.

LONDON: Printed for Richard CHANDLER, and sold at the Ship withoum

Temple-Lar, and at York and Scarborough. 1742.

SIR,

OUR Royal High

ness having condeended graciously to ac

cept

cept of the Three former Volumes of this Work, We beg Leave to inscribe the following likewise to your Royal Highness's Patronage, and remain with the utmost Gratitude and Resped,

SIR,

Tour Royal Highness's

Most obedient

Humble Servants,

The COMPILERS.