The British nation a history / by George MWrong . arliament three times;party spirit ran high, and Whigsand Tories now appear; a Torywas a lawless Irish rebel, and theparty of the Duke of York wasgiven this name in derision: theTories retorted by calling theiropponents Whigs, after some fa- /*natical Scottish sectaries who re-jected all law but that given tothe people of Israel. Feeling was 1 ., , , 1 , T • •! James Scott, Duke of so bitter that renewed civil war monmouth (1649-1685).seemed imminent. The nation took alarm at the menace, and when Charles called no Parliament during the last fou
The British nation a history / by George MWrong . arliament three times;party spirit ran high, and Whigsand Tories now appear; a Torywas a lawless Irish rebel, and theparty of the Duke of York wasgiven this name in derision: theTories retorted by calling theiropponents Whigs, after some fa- /*natical Scottish sectaries who re-jected all law but that given tothe people of Israel. Feeling was 1 ., , , 1 , T • •! James Scott, Duke of so bitter that renewed civil war monmouth (1649-1685).seemed imminent. The nation took alarm at the menace, and when Charles called no Parliament during the last four years of his reign, he probably had public opinion Tlie Tory behind him. For a time he kept Shaftesbury T63iCijlOIl in the Tower on the charge of high his release the earl fled to Holland, where he soon cancelled the charter of London and of otherplaces, and put their affairs in the hands of his own Torynominees. He released Danby from prison without order to save the nations liberties, some of the Whigs,27. 418 THP] BRITISH NATION on the other hand, planned to seize and even murder theking and the Duke of York ; but this Kye House Plot,so called from the place of meeting, was discovered, andthe kings hand fell heavily upon those involved in it. Theson of the Earl of Bedford, William, Lord Russell, a manof high character, was involved, though apparently he wasno party to the darker features of the plot, and Charlessent him to the hlock—a martvr to the ri^ht to resist
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