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Mythistory Versus History: the Fading of the Revolution of 1688*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Daniel Szechi
Daniel Szechi
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Auburn University
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The Historical Journal , Volume 33 , Issue 1 , March 1990 , pp. 143 - 153
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1 See for example, Jones, J. R., Country and court, England 1658–1714 (London, 1978), pp. 4–5Google Scholar, 255, 358–60; Plumb, J. H., The growth of political stability in England 1675–1725 (Cambridge, 1977), pp. 2Google Scholar, 187; Strayer, J. R. and Gatzke, H. W., The mainstream of civilization since 1660 (London, 1984), PP. 457–8Google Scholar.

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10 According to J. W. Croker, in 1828 George Ill's daughter Augusta remarked to a friend, ‘I was ashamed to hear myself called Princess Augusta, and never could persuade myself that I was so, as long as any of the Stuart family were alive; but after the death of Cardinal York, I felt myself to be really Princess Augusta’ Cited in, Clark, J. C. D., English society 1688–1832 (Cambridge, 1985), p. 161Google Scholar.

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13 Of the seven, the earls of Devonshire and Shrewsbury, Henry Sidney and Edward Russell were clear-cut whigs by 1688. Lord Lumley's whig credentials have been questioned in the light of his catholic origins and active service against Monmouth in 1685 (Feiling, K. G., A history of the Tory Party 1640–1714 (Oxford, 1950), p. 224)Google Scholar. Such doubts are probably misplaced. Lumley appears to have undergone a political conversion between 1686, when he lost his regiment for giving the wrong answers during the ‘closeting’ campaign, and 1688, when he signed the invitation to William (Childs, J., The army, James IIand the Glorious Revolution (Manchester, 1980), pp. 47–8)Google Scholar, because after the revolution the only recorded occasions on which he voted against the whig party line were on anti-Nonconformist issues (Holmes, G., British politics in the age of Anne (2nd edn, London, 1987), pp. 227Google Scholar, 432; Horwitz, H., Parliament policy and politics in the reign of William III (Manchester, 1977), p. 336)Google Scholar. His Anglicanism, it appears, was so devout that he shared the tones' hatred of religious dissent.

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