HST 632 Lecture 20: Week 13 - The Glorious Revolution
11 Apr 2018
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Judge george jeffreys and the bloody assizes, september 1685: after monmouth"s rebellion, james sends judge jeffreys to judge the rebels leads to mass hangings, many believed that this was excessive people thought that james had instructed. James"s slow conversion of england to roman catholicism: very different from queen mary i she was abrupt and destroyed the stability of the realm by undoing all of the changes of her predecessors. In 1686 it was used to suspend henry compton, bishop of london, who was openly anti-catholic: ecclesiastical commission was also used to dismiss all of the fellows of magdalen. College, oxford, who were then replaced with catholics. In april 1687, james issued a declaration of indulgence which suspended the penal laws against roman catholics and dissenters. James was moving quickly because he was getting old (for the time) if he dies, his heir is his.
