Walter Bagehot: “He offended the Anglican classes as well as the Puritan classes; all…”

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He offended the Anglican classes as well as the Puritan classes; all the Whig nobles, and half the Tory nobles, as well as the dissenting bourgeois.

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Walter Bagehot

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This passage illustrates the broad discontent James II created among various political factions in England.

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Walter Bagehot: “He offended the Anglican classes as well as the Puritan classes; all the Whig nobles, and half the Tory nobles, as well…”