About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 87. Chapters: Great Plague of London, Glorious Revolution, Restoration, Commonwealth of England, Lord Protector, Abhorrers, The Protectorate, Great Fire of London, Stuart period, Jacobite Risings, Behemoth, Monmouth Rebellion, Amboyna massacre, Canons of Renaissance poetry, Barebone's Parliament, Stuart London, English Renaissance, English Council of State, History of the English penny, Jacobean era, Caroline era, Spanish Match, Declaration of Breda, Council of Wales and the Marches, List of deserters from James II to William of Orange, Two guineas, Jacobite uprising in Cornwall of 1715, Battle of Reading, Interregnum, Council of the North, Thomason Collection of Civil War Tracts, Killing No Murder, Window tax, Seven Bishops, Rye House Plot, Farnley Wood Plot, Richard Hutton, Bloody Assizes, Hampton Court Conference, Jacobean architecture, Unite, Sir Richard Hutton, the younger, Declaration of Sports, Abraham-men, Commonwealth flags, Invitation to William, Agreement of the People, Owling, Calves' Head Club, Adam Elliot, Spur ryal, Thorough, Committee for the Advance of Money, Laurel, Martin Noell, Williamite, Treaty of Westminster, Great Contract, Carolus, Malignants. Excerpt: The Glorious Revolution, also called the Revolution of 1688, was the overthrow of King James II of England (VII of Scotland and II of Ireland) in 1688 by a union of English Parliamentarians with an invading army led by the Dutch stadtholder William III of Orange-Nassau (William of Orange) who, as a result, ascended the English throne as William III of England together with his wife Mary II of England. The crisis facing King James II came to a head in 1688, when the King fathered a son, James Francis Edward Stuart on 10 June (Julian calendar). Until then the throne would have passed to his daughter Mary, a Protestant, the wife of William. The prospect of a R...
