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404 YORK.
the county of Devon to oppose the landing of the
Prince of Orange. His efforts were fruitless, but they
doubtless recommended him to James, who immediately
nominated him to the northern primacy, and
he was enthroned on the 19th December, a very few
days before his royal master's departure from the
shores of England.
The writ for proclaiming William and Mary as
King and Queen of Great Britain arrived in York on
the evening of the 17th February, 1688-9. It was
the commencement of a new era—an era of political
and religious freedom, and of consequent moral and
social progress, unequalled in any previous period of
our country's history.