James II and the Three Questions
James II and the Three Questions

Author: Peter Walker

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 9783039119271

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The reign of James II, England's last Catholic king, remains controversial. His attempt to manipulate the electoral system to obtain a parliament that would abolish the Test Acts and Penal laws, which discriminated against his fellow Catholics, provoked his subjects to resistance and paved the way for the Revolution of 1688. The campaign is breathtaking both in its innovation and naiveté and nowhere is this more clearly highlighted than in the canvass of the gentry in the winter and spring of 1687-8. The canvass asked prospective MPs and electors to commit themselves to repeal. Historians have viewed the canvass as a failure: it did not bring the results the king hoped for and created a united opposition to the Stuart regime. However, as this book shows, scrutiny of the original canvass returns reveals that support for the king was stronger than was once assumed. It also reveals an endorsement of the general concept of religious toleration. William of Orange's invasion destroyed the king's plans, but given the time, could James have nurtured these 'green shoots' of religious pluralism in what was still a fiercely Protestant nation?

Godly Kingship in Restoration England
Godly Kingship in Restoration England

Author: Jacqueline Rose

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-07-21

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 113949967X

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The position of English monarchs as supreme governors of the Church of England profoundly affected early modern politics and religion. This innovative book explores how tensions in church-state relations created by Henry VIII's Reformation continued to influence relationships between the crown, Parliament and common law during the Restoration, a distinct phase in England's 'long Reformation'. Debates about the powers of kings and parliaments, the treatment of Dissenters and emerging concepts of toleration were viewed through a Reformation prism where legitimacy depended on godly status. This book discusses how the institutional, legal and ideological framework of supremacy perpetuated the language of godly kingship after 1660 and how supremacy was complicated by the ambivalent Tudor legacy. It was manipulated by not only Anglicans, but also tolerant kings and intolerant parliaments, Catholics, Dissenters and radicals like Thomas Hobbes. Invented to uphold the religious and political establishments, supremacy paradoxically ended up subverting them.

English Society, 1660-1832
English Society, 1660-1832

Author: J. C. D. Clark

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2000-03-16

Total Pages: 600

ISBN-13: 9780521666275

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An extensively revised edition of a classic of modern historiography.

The Glorious Revolution
The Glorious Revolution

Author: Eveline Cruickshanks

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2000-04-22

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780312230098

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This radical reassessment of the origins, circumstances and impact of the Revolution of 1688-89 takes a fresh look at the Glorious Revolution in its parliamentary, religious, and economic context and places it in its European setting. Eveline Cruickshanks argues that James II was a revolutionary king and that the Revolution eventually enabled Britain to become a world power.