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ABHORRERS

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 62 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: A10-ADA
ABHORRERS , the name given in 1679 to the persons who expressed their abhorrence at the action of those who had signed -petitions urging King Charles II. to assemble
parliament
 . Feeling against Roman Catholics, and especially against James, .-duke of
York
 , was running strongly; the Exclusion Bill had been passed by the
House
  of Commons, and the pppularity of James, duke of Monmouth, was very
great
 . To prevent this .bill from passing into law, Charles had dissolved
parliament
  in July 1679, and in the following October had prorogued its successor without allowing it to meet. He was then deluged with petitions urging him to
call
  it together, and this agitation was opposed by Sir George Jeffreys (q.v.) and Francis Wythens, who presented addresses expressing "abhorrence" of the "Petitioners," and thus initiated the
movement
  of the abhorrers, who supported the action of the king. "The frolic went all over England," says Roger North; and the addresses of the Abhorrers which reached the king from all parts of the country formed a counterblast to those of the Petitioners. It is said that the terms Whig and Tory were first applied to English political parties in consequence of this dispute.... ..


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