... of the trial and execution of an Irish Archbishop, victim of the `popish plot' scare of 1678-81. In the struggle between the Whig opposition and the Crown a number of innocent men were drawn into the complex web of intrigue, and none met his fate more nobly ...

... surprised that Messrs Powell and Maude, intelligent men, think that at this moment the Tories have a good chance to 'dish the Whigs' again. What is a little surprising is that Mr Powell seems to believe his own propaganda. He writes as if he really thinks ...

... adopte Tories.' Surely he i the Tory Par ideas of socia have eventua one of two t times the Tor new idea and ing it. Diu& Whigs'. At of been enacted will for soda time being, Tories have 1 tacitly or ex change to generation in reform. A borrow ( Thus ...

... interesting passage, was by no means the loyalist he has been taken for. There were plenty of 'Whigs' in Tudor England Puritan 'Whigs' like Ponet, and Roman Catholic Whigs like Parsons (for Elizabethan Catholics, being an opposition, produced a very liberal ...

... something in the 1810 s to reduce them. The decade also witnessed a new alignment of political parties; in place of the old Tory-Whig dichotomy, which had no long er much significance, Conservatives and Liberals took sides, primarily on the question of free ...