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HISTORY OF EARLY MODERN ENGLAND UT KNOXVILLE LIBRARY is h6e 9 Os REVOLUTION, RELIGION AND WAR UT KNOXVILLE LIBRARY 391029 026453120 DATE DUE 25 WAY 2004 ch ‘enoy 24 09 UPI PRINTED IN U.S.A, _ || England in the 1690s lo A History ofE arly Modern England General Editor: John Morrill This new series will provide a detailed history of early modern England. Its distinctiveness lies in the fact that it aims to capture the spirit of the time from the point of view of the people living through it. Each volume will be broad in scope covering the political, religious, social and cultural dimensions of the period. Published The Birth of the Elizabethan Age England in the 1560s Norman Jones England in the 1690s Revolution, Religion and War Craig Rose The Birth of Britain A New Nation 1700-1710 W. A. Speck In preparation The Birth of the Jacobean Age England 1601-1612 Pauline Croft England in the 1590s David Dean The Rule of Charles I England in the 1630s Kenneth Fincham England in the 1650s Ann Hughes England in the 1690s Revolution, Religion and War Craig Rose BLACKWELL HT Publishers | Copyright © Craig Rose 1999 : The right of Craig Rose to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accor- dance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 1999 24681097531 Blackwell Publishers Ltd 108 Cowley Road Oxford OX4 IJF UK Blackwell Publishers Inc. 350 Main Street Malden, Massachusetts 02148 USA All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purposes of criticism and review, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. Except in the United States of America, this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Rose, Craig. England in the 1690s : revolution, religion, and war / Craig Rose. : cm. — (History of early modern England) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-631-17545-8 (acid-free paper). — ISBN 0-631-20936-0 (pbk. : acid-free paper) 1. Great Britain—History—William and Mary, 1689-1702. 2. Great Britain—History—Revolution of 1688—Influence. 3. Great Britain— History, Military—17th century. 4. England—Church history—17th century. 5. England—Civilization—17th century. I. Title. IL. Series. DA460.R67 1999 942.06'8—dc21 98-39045 CIP Typeset in Baskerville by Grahame & Grahame Editorial, Brighton Printed in Great Britain by TJ International, Padstow, Cornwall This book is printed on acid-free paper To Francine and My Parents ‘... History is my beloved Study, with it I would (ifI h ad it in my power) grow old and die.’ Edmund Bohun, The Character of Queen Elizabeth (1693), preface Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2021 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/englandin1690sre0000rose Contents List of Illustrations Viii Preface and Acknowledgements xii List of Abbreviations Xvi Note to the Reader XViii 1 Wiltlhei Coanqumer or 1 2 King William and his Contemporaries 18 3 Parties and Politics 63 4 King William’s War 105 5 The Church of England 152 6 Godly Reformation 195 7 Scotland and Ireland 210 8 A Remembrance of Times Past 258 Notes 270 Index 319 Illustrations Maps 1 The Glorious Revolution and the War in the Channel, 1688-94. Based on Jonathan I. Israel, Ed., The Anglo- Dutch Moment: Essays on the Glorious Revolution and its world impact (Cambridge, 1991), map 2. The Low Countries during King William’s War (1689-97) 123 Illustrations 1 A plan of St James’s Palace, 1688. When the Prince of Wales was born in June 1688, many Protestants forced themselves to believe that he was a ‘suppositious’ babe, smuggled into the Queen’s bed in a warming-pan. The dotted line purports to trace the route taken by the myth- ical warming-pan through St James’s Palace. Reproduced by permission of Cambridge University Library. King William and Queen Mary, from Richard Cox’s Hibernia Anglicana, 1689. The constitutional arrangement worked out in February 1689 was unique. William and Mary would reign as joint sovereigns, but William alone would hold the sovereign power. During the King’s absences abroad, the Queen ruled as her husband’s regent, assisted by a select group of ministers — the ‘cabinet council’. Reproduced by permission of Cambridge University Library. ‘In Memory of ye Deliverance from Popery & Slavery by King William IT in MDCLXXXVIIP, 1689. To Williamites, the revolution of 1688 was a providential deliverance from the evils of popery — a view vividly illus-
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