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There were also rumours regarding the way in which some of the gentry had answered the questions. Sir Charles Keyms, a close friend of Beaufort and also of Judge Jeffreys and Lord Craven, was appalled to find that it was widely assumed that he had answered in the King\u2019s favour to the three questions.<\/p>\n

So was Sir John Carne, who felt he had been slandered by the rumour. The Purge The failure of the canvass of the three questions in Wales did not deter James from pressing forward with his policies. In order to promote those who would support the King\u2019s ambitions and to punish those who would not, James initiated further purges of the members of the commission of the peace, the militia and the lieutenancy. He adopted the same approach as the earlier quo warranto policy of Charles II: to exclude from membership of borough corporations any who opposed his objective.<\/p>\n

Paradoxically it often punished those who were James\u2019s traditional Tory supporters and promoted those Catholics and Dissenters who had previously been marginalised but who might be prepared to support him in exchange for local power and influence. Beaufort himself was not immune to the rigours of James\u2019s policy.<\/p>\n

His son, the Marquis of Worcester, was ejected from his commission in the Duke of York\u2019s regiment and replaced with the Marquis of Powis\u2019s son, Lord Montgomery. Lord Worcester, unlike his father, was a principled Protestant who would not bend his principles. He had gone as far as to join the address in November 1685 asking James to withdraw army commissions which he had issued during the emergency of the Monmouth Rebellion. It was this address that had so enraged James that he peremptorily prorogued parliament.<\/p>\n

In the national purge of the lists of deputy lieutenants and magistrates that followed the canvass, Wales was badly hit. Even before the canvass of the questions, Lord Chancellor Jeffreys had been seeking possible candidates to insert into the commissions for the peace in Wales.<\/p>\n

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www.uwp.co.uk British Library CIP Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN 978-1-83772-316-4 eISBN 978-1-83772-318-8 The right of William Gibson to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 79 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. For GPSR enquiries please contact Easy Access System Europe O\u00fc, 16879218, Mustam\u00e4e tee 50, 10621, Tallinn, Estonia.<\/p>\n

gpsr.requests@easproject.com The publisher has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for any external or third- party internet websites referred to in this book, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. OceanofPDF.com Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 CONTENTS Abbreviations Timeline of James II\u2019s Reign in Wales Simplified Genealogy of the Later Stuarts Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction Before James: Whig Wales or Tory Wales?<\/p>\n

The Reign of James II in Wales Wales in Parliament under James The Law, Judges and Lawyers Wales, the Three Questions and Quo Warranto Proceedings The Welsh Peerage under James II Bishop William Lloyd of St Asaph The Revolution in Wales The Aftermath Notes Bibliography OceanofPDF.com ABBREVIATIONS Bodleian Library: Bodleian Library, Oxford DWB: Dictionary of Welsh Biography online at https:\/\/biography.wales\/ Henning, The House of Commons, 1660\u20131690: B. Henning, The House of Commons, 1660\u20131690 (London, 1983) Jenkins, The Foundations of Modern Wales: G.<\/p>\n

H. Jenkins, The Foundations of Modern Wales, 1642\u20131780 (Oxford, 1987) Jenkins, The Making of a Ruling Class: P. Jenkins, The Making of a Ruling Class, The Glamorgan Gentry, 1640\u20131790 (Cambridge, 1983) McClain, Beaufort: M. McClain, Beaufort, The Duke and His Duchess (London and New Haven, 2001) NLW: National Library of Wales NLWJ: National Library of Wales Journal ODNB: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, 2006) Paley, The House of Lords 1660\u20131715: R.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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