"The licence, which the parliament had bestowed on this spirit, by checking ecclesiastical authority; the countenance and encouragement, with which they had honoured it; had already diffused its influence to a wonderful degree: And all orders of men had drunk deep of the intoxicating poison."
The History of England [Vol. 5, originally Vol. 1]
Hume's history was published 1754-1762. Over 45 entries in the ESTC (1762, 1763, 1764, 1766, 1767, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, 1773, 1775, 1778, 1780, 1782, 1786, 1788, 1789, 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1795, 1796, 1797). [Published in 1754 as <u>The History of Great Britain. Vol.I. Containing the Reigns of James I. and Charles I</u>. The first volumes published became the last of the six in chronological ordering of the 1762 multi-volume work.]<br>
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See <u>The History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Cæsar to the Revolution in 1688. in Six Volumes. By David Hume, a New Edition, Corrected.</u> (London: Printed for A. Millar, in the Strand, M DCC LXII, 1762). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T98604">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;<br>
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See David Hume, <u>The History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688</u>, Foreword by William B. Todd, 6 vols. (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund 1983). &lt;<a href="http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/79">Link to OLL</a>&gt; &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&contentSet=ECCOArticles&type=multipage&tabID=T001&prodId=ECCO&docId=CW100385629&source=gale&userGroupName=viva_uva&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>gt;