Sir John Clifford Mortimer CBE QC 21 April
Sir John Clifford Mortimer, CBE QC (21 April 1923 - 16 January 2009) • Author of Rumpole of the Bailey, The Titmuss Chronicles, and many other works. • Defender of The Sex Pistols
The Revolution Settlement 1688 -1714
Revolution of 1688 -1689 “Glorious Revolution”
Glorious Revolution • No reign of terror or dictatorship • Quick • Effective
Locke’s Second Treatise • Life, Liberty, Property • Right to revolt
Bill of Rights (1689) • • • Protected Parliament’s rights Everyone’s right to petition Trial by Jury Uninterfered vote No excessive bail Right to bear arms
1688 • • • Marks end of revolutionary century No more absolutist attempts 125 years war with France Toleration Act Colonization regularizing Financial Stability
The Stuart Dynasty • William (1689 -1702) • Mary (1689 -1694)
• Anne (1702 -1714
Revolution Settlement • • Bill of Rights Toleration Act End of Press Censorship Act of Settlement (1701)
Settlement Insecurity • Foreign War • Dynastic Difficulty
Wars • Policy Change • William III • English opposition to Louis XIV – Edict of Nantes (1685) – Balance of Power • French Recognition of James
Other Points • No underlying conflict between king and Parliament. • More money – Parliament approved and controlled – Commercial expansion – National Debt • Bank of England (1699)
Wars • War of the League of Augsburg (King William’s War) • War of the Spanish Succession (Queen Anne’s War)
John Churchill • Duke of Marlborough
Blenheim Palace
Treaty of Utrecht • • Spanish kings to be Bourbon Spanish and French Thrones split Spanish Netherlands become Austrian England gets Gibraltar and Minorca
More English gains • Hudson Bay, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland • Trade with Spanish America • Asiento • France recognizes Revolutionary Settlement
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