TY - JOUR
AU - Prall, Stuart E.
AB - Modern Europe 1479 The enfranchisement of all freemen as parliamen­ Although he mentions the name of J. C. D. Clark only tary electors in 1660 ensured a popular basis for the once in the text, Claydon is clearly in the Clark camp. political divisions that were notable by 1679-1683. If Not only was seventeenth-century England an age of the corporate purges of the early 1660s had tested faith, but so was the eighteenth century. Yarmouth and other towns, the purges of the 1680s The book's theme is elaborately laid out in a longish were even more traumatic. In their post-1689 wake, introduction, followed by six chapters. The argument is Yarmouth leaders preferred civic unity to party divi­ persuasive and so is the documentation. Claydon pre­ sion, even though the local and national differences sents and defends his thesis in a very readable style. It that produced party conflict remained. In the light of represents an important contribution to later Stuart recent revisionism, Gauci's treatment of party is cau­ historiography and will have to be read by anyone tious, perhaps too cautious, given that much revision­ working in that area. ism has been directed toward an artificially high stan­ Claydon's 
TI - Tony Claydon. William HI and the Godly Revolution. (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 1996. Pp. xiv, 272. $54.95
JF - The American Historical Review
DO - 10.1086/ahr/102.5.1479
DA - 1997-12-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/tony-claydon-william-hi-and-the-godly-revolution-cambridge-studies-in-mbqpgm0Zve
SP - 1479
EP - 1480
VL - 102
IS - 5
DP - DeepDyve
ER -