THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE TORIES

HISTORY OF THE TORIES

FROM THE ACCESSION OF CHARLES THE SECOND

TO THE DEATH OF WILLIAM THE THIRD

(1660-1702)

BY

C. B. ROYLANCE KENT, M.A.

TRINITY COLLEGE, OXFORD, AND OF GRAY'S INN, BARRISTER-AT-LAW

'But what I choose rather to say here, is not that history is the school of public
feeling, but that it is the school of statesmanship.'-SIR J. R. SEELEY: Cambridge
Inaugural Lecture, 1869.

LONDON

SMITH, ELDER & CO., 15 WATERLOO PLACE

1908

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