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Great Scott! The Restoration in Turmoil, or, Restoration Crises and the Emergence of Party

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Richard L. Greaves
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Order and Authority: Creating Party in Restoration England
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Albion , Volume 25 , Issue 4 , Winter 1993 , pp. 605 - 618
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Copyright © North American Conference on British Studies 1993

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1 Rosenheim made this point in the version of this paper he read to the American Historical Association in December 1992.

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5 So too, of course, did most nonconforming ministers, but they rejected the Book of Common Prayer, which some of their followers treated with blatant disrespect.

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13 PRO SP 29/86/18.1.

14 PRO SP 29/61/122.

15 PRO SP 29/88/28.

16 PRO SP 29/54/75.

17 PRO SP 29/93/8.

18 Intelligencer 57 (18 July 1664)Google Scholar; PRO SP 29/99/7.

19 PRO SP 29/93/3; 29/101/102; 29/121/38.

20 PRO SP 29/99/9.

21 PRO SP 29/137/97.

22 Greaves, Richard L., Secrets of the Kingdom: British Radicals from the Popish Plot to the Revolution of 1688–1689 (Stanford, Calif., 1992), p. 137Google Scholar.

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25 Scott, Jonathan, Algernon Sidney and the Restoration Crisis, 1677–1683 (Cambridge, 1991), pp. 13–14, 23–25, 47–49CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

26 Depositions from the Castle of York, Relating to Offences Committed in the Northern Counties in the Seventeenth Century, ed. Raine, J. (Surtees Society, vol. 40, 1861), p. 83Google Scholar.

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31 Scott, David, “Politics and Government in York, 1640–1642,” in Town and Countryside in the English Revolution, ed. Richardson, R. C. (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1992), p. 47Google Scholar. Similarly, Barry Coward traces at least one strand (toleration of Protestant dissent) of “Whiggism” and “Toryism” to “the divergent experiences of the gentry during the English Revolution.” Coward, “The Experience of the Gentry, 1640–1660,” in ibid., p. 199.

32 To argue that political parties emerged in the late Stuart period is not to aver that they had an unbroken history down to modem times. Most specialists believe the Tory party ceased to exist at some point between 1757 and 1766; its revival is dated anywhere from the 1780s to the early 1830s. See, e.g., Sack, James J., From Jacobite to Conservative: Reaction and Orthodoxy in Britain, c. 1760–1832 (Cambridge, 1993), ch. 3Google Scholar and the Conclusion.

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35 PRO SP 29/224/77; 29/225/39; 29/233/50.

36 SP 29/235/86; 29/250/96.

37 See also Greaves, , Enemies Under His Feet: Radicals and Nonconformists in Britain, 1664–1677 (Stanford, Calif., 1990), pp. 150, 162, 226, 227Google Scholar.

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39 PRO SP 29/292/6.

40 PRO SP 29/292/29.

41 PRO SP 29/292/131.

42 PRO SP 29/293/149.

43 PRO SP 29/292/198; 29/294/85.

44 PRO SP 29/294/85. For hints of similar developments elsewhere, see (for Dover) PRO SP 29/280/98; 29/293/183; Calendar of State Papers, Domestic 1670, p. 431; (for Canterbury) SP 29/369/214; (for Cumberland) SP 29/230/67; (for Oxford) 29/247/39.

45 British Library, Additional Manuscripts 41,811, fol. 189r (hereafter cited as Add. MSS).

46 Add. MSS 41,811, fols. 226v–227r, cf. ibid., fol. 226r; 41,809, fol. HOv; 41,817, fol. 85r. Thomas Chudleigh referred to the Whig exiles at this point as “the Faction” as well as “the Party.” Ibid., 41,809, fol. 112r–v; 41,810, fol. 236r–v.

47 PRO SP 29/434/64.

48 John Rylands Library, Legh of Lyme MSS, Shakerley to Legh, 16 May 1684. The level of intensity could be extreme, as reflected in the reported statement of a Whig who “hope[d] to live to see all the damned Tories hanged & confounded, I mortally hate them all (PRO SP 29/435/147).

49 Greaves, Secrets of the Kingdom, chs. 7, 8 and Appendices B and C.

50 Essex supported exclusion in the second Parliament of 1679. For his role in the discussion by Monmouth's inner circle of a proposed insurrection to compel Charles to endorse exclusion, Essex went to the Tower in 1683. Sunderland and James probably masterminded his assassination at the hands of John Holland (Sunderland's servant) and Major Webster, and the largely successful effort to disguise it as suicide (Greaves, , Secrets of the Kingdom, pp. 219–29Google Scholar).