James Mackintosh - History of The Revolution in England in 1688

History of The Revolution in England in 1688

Mackintosh only completed to James II's abdication. However his voluminous notes on the Glorious Revolution came into the possession of Thomas Macaulay, who used them for his own History of the Revolution. Mackintosh's notes stopped in the year of 1701, where Macaulay's History also ends.

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