The Growth of Political Stability in England 1675–1725 PDF
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THE GROWTH OF POLITICAL STABILITY IN ENGLAND 1675-17"5 BY THE SAME AUTHOR England in the Eighteenth Century West African Explorers (with C. Howard) Chatham Studies in Social History (editor) Sir Robert Walpole: The Making of a Statesman Sir Robert Walpole: The King's Minister The First Four Georges The Italian Renaissance Men and Places The Crisis in the Humanities (editor) Churchill: Four Faces and the Man ('Churchill, Historian') The Death of the Past In the Light of History Royal Heritage (with Huw Wheldon) THE GROWTH OF POLITICAL STABILITY IN ENGLAND 75- 7 5 16 1 2 J. H. PLUMB palgrave © J. H. Plumb 1967 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without permission First edition 1967 Reprinted 1972, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1982 Published by THE MACMILLAN PRESS LTD London and Basingstoke Companies and representatives throughout the world ISBN 978-0-333-23061-9 ISBN 978-1-349-03540-3 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-03540-3 Transferred to digital printing 200 I The paperback edition of this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or othe.rwise, 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 Contents Pre/aee laleix . A!JllmJia,;olll XI . A NOle '" Dalll XI ... 11I11'0a",,;01l ZU1 1 The Background to Politics in 1688 I 2 Parliament Preserved 31 3 The Growth of Oligarchy 66 ... The Role of the Executive 98 5 The Rage ofP arty 129 6 The Triumph of the Venetian Oligarchy 159 AppllIaiN I 190 APpl1l4i1t II 192 1114111 19S ro .. NEIL McKENDRICK Preface T HE greatest honour that can befall an English historian is to be invited by the University of Oxford to give the Ford Lectures, and I am very much indebted to the Electors for inviting me to give them in 1965. The version here printed is almost identical with the lectures that I delivered in the Michaelmas Term. In one or two places they have been slightly extended, and they have been pruned of a few slips, noticed by myoId pupil and J. colleague, Professor P. Kenyon, who read the typescript. This is not the only debt lowe. Professor Kenyon. Over the years I have greatly profited from his insight and knowledge of late seventeenth-century England. Indeed, the lectures owe a great deal not only to him but to many other of my research students who have deepened my knowledge and understanding of the Augustan Age. In particular I am grateful to Neil McKendrick, who has read and commented on each chapter at every stage. I am also indebted, as ever, to many owners of private collections, as well as to many librarians and archivists.·My principal obligations are to the Duke of Portland, the Marquess of Cholmondeley, Earl Winterton, Earl Stan hope, the Earl of Yarborough, Lord Braye, Lord Walpole and Sir George Howard, and to the librarians and archivists of the British Museum, Bodley's, the Leicester Museum, the Lincoln Record Office, and the Herts. Record Office, and, par ticularly, to Miss Coates of the National Register ofA rchives. I also wish to thank Dr. Aubrey Newman for reading the proofs, and my secretary, Mrs. Pendred, who has struggled with handwriting that is even worse than Robert Harley's. For the errors that have survived their eagle eyes, I am en tirely responsible. X THB OROWTH OJ' POLITICAL STABILITY My days at Oxford were eased by the warm hospitality that was showered upon me. No one could have been given a kinder or more generous welcome, but I shall always remember with gratitude the generosity of the Warden and Fellows of Wadh am College, who put a room at my disposal for the term. ]. H. P. Abbreviations Add. MSS. Additional Manuscripts, British Museum Cal. S. P. Dom. Calendar ofS late Papers Domestic Cal. Treas. Bles. Calendar ofT reasury Booles C(H) MSS. Cholmondeley (Houghton) Manuscripts DNB The Dictionary olNational BiographJ Ec.Hisl.R. Economic History Review EHR English Historical Review HMC Historical Manuscripts Commission JHC The Journals oft he House ofC ommons T. R. Hisl. S. The Transactions of the Royal Historical Society rCB The rictoria County History A Note on Dates All dates given are in Old Style, except that I treat the year as beginning on I January.
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