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Many of James’s problems were those that faced his brother. Patrick Dillon claimed that James ‘inherited a slow-burning crisis whose fuse was still alight’.1 It was a fuse on which James was determined to blow. By the end of his reign, Charles II had thrown in his lot with the Tory Anglicans. He regarded Whigs and Dissenters as dangerous and potentially treasonable. This is what Michael Mullett called the ‘Second Restoration’ which, in the wake of the Rye House Plot, saw the Tories ascendant and the Whig exclusionists at bay.2 But James failed to recognise how much Charles had become dependent on the Tory Anglicans.3 The consequence was that both James and the Tory Anglicans failed to recognise the slow-burning nature of the problems that faced them, and in particular the unrealistic expectations each had of the other.
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Gibson, W. (2009). The King’s Policies 1685–7. In: James II and the Trial of the Seven Bishops. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230233782_3
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