1. Sir John Clifford Mortimer, CBE QC (21 April 1923 - 16 January 2009)CBEQC Author of Rumpole of the Bailey, The Titmuss Chronicles, and many other works. Defender of The Sex Pistols

2. The Revolution Settlement 1688-1714

3. Revolution of 1688-1689 “Glorious Revolution”

4. Glorious Revolution No reign of terror or dictatorship Quick Effective

5. Locke’s Second Treatise Life, Liberty, Property Right to revolt

6. Bill of Rights (1689) Protected Parliament’s rights Everyone’s right to petition Trial by Jury Uninterfered vote No excessive bail Right to bear arms

7. 1688 Marks end of revolutionary century No more absolutist attempts 125 years war with France Toleration Act Colonization regularizing Financial Stability

8. The Stuart Dynasty William (1689-1702) Mary (1689-1694)

9. Anne (1702-1714

10. Revolution Settlement Bill of Rights Toleration Act End of Press Censorship Act of Settlement (1701)

11. Settlement Insecurity Foreign War Dynastic Difficulty

12. Wars Policy Change William III English opposition to Louis XIV –Edict of Nantes (1685) –Balance of Power French Recognition of James

13. Other Points No underlying conflict between king and Parliament. More money –Parliament approved and controlled –Commercial expansion –National Debt Bank of England (1699)

14. Wars War of the League of Augsburg (King William’s War) War of the Spanish Succession (Queen Anne’s War)

15. John Churchill Duke of Marlborough

16. Blenheim Palace

20. Treaty of Utrecht Spanish kings to be Bourbon Spanish and French Thrones split Spanish Netherlands become Austrian England gets Gibraltar and Minorca

22. More English gains Hudson Bay, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland Trade with Spanish America Asiento France recognizes Revolutionary Settlement