Table Of ContentHISTORY OF EARLY MODERN ENGLAND
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England
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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
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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.
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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
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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-
