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In 1688 with a Protestant win behind him a known naval opposition in front

William of Orange and his Dutch fleet sailed safely into Torbe on the southeast coast and thus began a period of history known in England

At least as the glorious revolution

The story goes that the English fed up with their Catholic King James II and the

Alamed at the prospect of a Catholic succession

Invited William to come to England and save Parliament Protestantism and the rights of ordinary citizens

William was cheered all the way to London and goes where with the backing of Parliament and the people here in his wife Mary

We're installed as joint sovereign monarchs over England Wales Ireland and Scotland

Victorian historians like McCawley claim that this was the era that defined British democracy

But how much of the spirit of 1688 is enrapt within our unwritten constitution?

With the events of 1688 either glorious or revolutionary women to discuss the place in history of that glorious revolution is John Spur

Redrin history at the University of Wales Swansea res me sweet lecture in economic and social history at the University of Lester and

Scott Mandelbrough to fellow and director of studies at Peterhouse came bridge

Scott Mandelbrough's an alliance of the Wings and the Tories who became known as the Immortal Seventh

Road to William in Holland in 1688 and asked for his help

Why were they writing and why were they asking him and why is this not a sort of act of treachery?

Well, they were writing because they were

unhappy personally with the events that had taken place earlier in 1688 particularly

with some of the decisions of James the Seconds government especially concerning religious policy

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