Exclusion Crisis, Great Britain, 1678-1683
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found: Work cat.: The first Whigs : the politics of the Exclusion crisis, 1678-1683:p. 4 (The Exclusion crisis took its name from the repeated attempts which Shaftesbury and the first Whigs made in 1679, 80, and 81 to pass a bill excluding James, Duke of York, from the succession)
found: Oxford companion to British history, 1997:(Exclusion crisis, a period of intense political strife during 1679-81 generated by the Whig Party's attempt in Parliament to bar Charles II's Catholic brother James, Duke of York, from sucession to the throne)
found: Radical Whigs and conspiratorial politics in late Stuart England, c1999:p. xii (From 1678 to 1681, Whigs concentrated on parliamentary and propaganda campaigns to resolve what historians have tradionally called "the Exclusion Crisis"; Whigs sought to exclude the "popish successor" James from from the throne; scholars have tradionally examined the Exclusion Crisis within strict parameters, closing it off either with the dissolution of Charles last Parliament in 1681, or with the trials and executions following the discovery of the Rye House Plot in 1683) p. 2 (the era of the Popish Plot and the Exclusion Crisis (1678-83))
found: Politics and opinion in crisis, 1678-81:jacket (examines central politics to explore the succession crisis within the context of the court)
found: Perspectives on Restoration drama, 2002:p. 3 (the Exclusion Crisis of 1678-1683 almost erupted into another Civil War)
found: The attempted Whig revolution of 1678-1681, 1937.
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2006-10-13: revised
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