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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: WINDSOR CASTLE. LESSON IV. HOW GEORGE III. ATTEMPTED TO INCREASE THE KINGLY POWER. One of the important results of the accession of the House of Hanover was to make the power of Parliament, especially the House of Commons, supreme in the State. The first two Georges owed their maintenance on the throne to the good-will of the Whigs. An influential faction in the nation disputed the Hanoverian succession, and secretly intrigued for the restoration of the heir of the House of Stuart. Under these circumstances thefirst two Brunswick sovereigns were obliged to submit to the control of the political party that secured their succession, and maintained them in possession of it. The royal authority was therefore reduced to its lowest point, and all power passed into the hands of the great Whig landowners, whose parliamentary influence was very strong. George III. ascended the throne under very different conditions from those of his two predecessors, as we read in the previous Lesson. Jacobitism had died out, and its supporters had transferred their loyalty to him. He, therefore, had no fear of a rival to dispute his right to the Crown; so, relying upon the cordial support of the Tories, he resolved, as we have already seen, to assert his independence, and, if possible, to recover much of the kingly power which the Revolution had taken away. With these objects in view he took into his own hands the patronage which belonged to the Crown in order to create and maintain in Parliament a faction devoted to his interests. By the formation of a party of the King's friends, as they were called, he hoped to place a check upon the actions of his ministers, and also to undermine the influence of the Whig aristocracy. He readily learnt from the Whigs themselves how to acquire the ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217721332 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217721338 |
| Weight | 0.77 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.53 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 234 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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