Robert Ferguson the Plotter
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ISBN13: 9780217278928
Paperback|9780217278928
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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: CHAPTER II. 1679-1682. ACTIVITY AS A POLITICAL WHITER. Rarely, perhaps, has popular excitement been greater, or party feeling run higher, than was the case in England in the year 1679. The closing days of the old year had seen the last of the Commons' House?more zealous for the Church than the bishops, and more devoted to monarchy than the King?which had done its part in ruling England since the Restoration, and was responsible for the odious Uniformity and Five Mile Acts. The new one met in a very different temper from that which had distinguished the heyday of its predecessor. The1 elections had been contested with the greatest vehemence, and for the first time it is recorded the victorious party resorted to the practice of splitting freeholds. The Whig party and faggot-voting came in together, and, strangely enough, the name Whig superseded another drawn from the future city of the caucus. For the party of Shaftesbury were originally called Bir- minghams, from an inferior kind of groat in circulation there. Their policy soon gave them the designations of Exclusionists and Petitioners, but these yielded to the convenient monosyllable bestowed in derision by their opponents, as on the other side Abhorrers and Tantivies were soon converted into Tories. Party names, and the new words mob and sham, which then enriched the vocabulary, were indications of the ferment in the minds of men. Therevelations and assertions of Titus Gates had stirred to white heat the anti-Papist feeling of the country; the mystery of Sir Edmondbury Godfrey's death had driven them home, and there was widespread alarm. Barristers in the Temple bought suits of silken armour, and honest burghers invested in Protestant flails. The Popish Plot was believed in as a dark reality by men who considered the ev...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217278928 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217278922 |
| Weight | 1.14 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.79 In |
| List Price | $24.39 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 352 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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