... mind that the name had disappeared because the Whig 1800 was the Conservative of to-day. The actual line dividing Whig and Tory was very narrow one indeed The first William Pitt, the Earl Chatham, was a. Whig, and did not suppose there ever was finer or ...

... Titus Oates* the King summoned a new Parliament to meet at Oxford in March, 1631. The elections were sharply contested. The Whigs still composed majority of the House of Commons, but it was plain that the Tory spirit was fast rising throughout the country ...

... rebellion failed. Mr. Trenchard said, ©Wing could be. It through the various societies to the lack of support on the part of the Whig tn»t the Missionary Council was going to act. gentry, the misuse of the rebel cavalry, and the The missionary call the Church ...