Scotland Under William and Mary

by Derek John Patrick

ISBN: 9781904607847
Imprint: John Donald
Publication Date: Nov 2010
Format: Paperback
Price: £25.00
Stock Status: not yet published

The impact of the 1688–89 Revolution on Scotland has received little attention, with most historians of the opinion that the problems in Scotland were little more than a side effect to the real action in England. Some concluded that the Scottish estates had no real interest in politics and that those in office were merely self-seeking opportunists. Derek Patrick has re-assessed this portrait of the Scots as ‘reluctant revolutionaries’ in the period of the Glorious Revolution. Beginning with the closing months of James VII’s reign, he traces the reaction to William’s invasion, investigates the changing relationship between King and Parliament and looks at the crisis presented by the Presbyterian Church Government – all factors which led to a deterioration of the relationship between England and Scotland and prompted renewed interest in an incorporating Union. Scotland Under William and Mary proves that there was more to the reign of the King William and Queen Mary than the ‘ill years’ of famine, Glencoe and the collapse of the Darien scheme. Drawing on previously untapped source documents, this is a fresh examination of a largely neglected period.

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