emergence of 'court' and 'country' factions

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Court

  • those who supported the monarch’s religious and political direction

  • key figures were Charles II, Danby and Duke of Ormonde

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Country

  • those concerned of monarch’s policies

  • Shaftesbury and Buckingham

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Court’s aims?

  • tolerate dissenters and Catholics

  • strengthen ties with catholic france

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Country’s aims?

  • anti-catholic, but wanted to protect Protestants

  • hostile to dissenters and France

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Tensions?

  • Danby wanted to create an alliance and promoted support for the Church, persecution of Protestants and Catholics and hostility to France - The Country faction agreed

  • But inwardly, Charles wanted greater religious toleration and stronger ties with France (secret negotiation with Louis XIV)

  • Country worried about Crown’s prerogative, key publications like ‘A letter from a person of Quality to his friend’ argued there was plans to turn England into a Catholic absolutist state