The history of England, from the accession of James the Second (1914) (14577832287)

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Title: The history of England, from the accession of James the Second
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron, 1800-1859 Firth, C. H. (Charles Harding), 1857-1936
Subjects: Great Britain -- History James II, 1685-1688 Great Britain -- History William and Mary, 1689-1702
Publisher: London : Macmillan
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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a whole year elapsed, an eventful year, which has left lastingtraces in our manners and language. Never before had political con-troversy been carried on with so much freedom. Never before hadpolitical clubs existed with so elaborate an organisation or so formidablean influence. The one question of the Exclusion occupied the publicmind. All the presses and pulpits of the realm took part in the conflict.Violence of On one side it was maintained that the constitution and re-factions on 1 Jo-ion of the state could never be secure under a Popishthe subject °of the Ex- King ; on the other, that the right of James to wear the crown in his turn was derived from God, and could not be annulled,even by the consent of all the branches of the legislature. Every II UNDER CHARLES THE SECOND 243 county, every town, every family, was in agitation. The civilities andhospitalities of neighbourhood were interrupted. The dearest ties offriendship and of blood were sundered. Even schoolboys were divided
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LAWRENCE HYDE, EARL OF ROCHESTER, From a mezzotint by R. Williams, after the painting by Wissing into angry parties ; and the Duke of York and the Earl of Shaftesburyhad zealous adherents on all the forms of Westminster and Eton. Thetheatres shook with the roar of the contending factions. Pope Joan wasbrought on the stage by the zealous Protestants. Pensioned poets filled 244 HISTORY OF ENGLAND chap, n their prologues and epilogues with eulogies on the King and the Duke.The malecontents besieged the throne with petitions, demanding that Par-liament might be forthwith convened. The loyalists sent up addresses,expressing the utmost abhorrence of all who presumed to dictate tothe sovereign. The citizens of London assembled by tens of thousandsto burn the Pope in effigy. The government posted cavalry at TempleBar, and placed ordnance round Whitehall. In that year our tonguewas enriched with two words, Mob and Sham, remarkable memorialsof a season of tumult and imposture.1 Opponents of the c