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410 rather lost ground in this respect, since the days of Oliver Cromwell.

The Union of Great Britain with Ireland—which had been getting on very ill by itself — took place in the reign of George the Third, on the second of July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight.

William the Fourth succeeded George the Fourth, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty, and reigned seven years. Queen Victoria, his niece, the only child of the Duke of Kent, the fourth son of George the Third, came to the throne on the twentieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven. She was married to on the tenth of February, one thousand eight hundred and forty. She is very good and much beloved. So, I end, like the crier, with