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Title: The history of England, from the accession of James the Second
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron, 1800-1859 Firth, C. H. (Charles Harding), 1857-1936
Subjects: Great Britain -- History James II, 1685-1688 Great Britain -- History William and Mary, 1689-1702
Publisher: London : Macmillan
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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London trainbands ; that, in thegreat crisis of the civil war, the London trainbands had marched to raisethe siege of Gloucester ; or that, in the movement against the militarytyrants which followed the downfall of Richard Cromwell, the Londontrainbands had borne a signal part. In truth, it is no exaggeration tosay that, but for the hostility of the City, Charles the First would neverhave been vanquished, and that, without the help of the City, Charlesthe Second could scarcely have been restored. These considerations may serve to explain why, in spite of thatattraction which had, during a long course of years, gradually drawn thearistocracy westward, a few men of high rank had continued, till a veryrecent period, to dwell in the vicinity of the Exchange and of theGuildhall. Shaftesbury and Buckingham, while engaged in bitter andunscrupulous opposition to the government, had thought that they could1 Chamberlaynes State of England, 1684; Angliae Metropolis, 1690; Seymours London, 1734.
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SIR JOHN MOORE, LORD MAYOR OF LONDON IN 1682From a mezzotint by McArdell in the Sutherland Collection 346 HISTORY OF ENGLAND chap, m nowhere carry on their intrigues so conveniently or so securely as under the protection of the City magistrates and the City militia. Shaftesbury had therefore lived in Aldersgate Street, at a house which may still be easily known by pilasters and wreaths, the graceful work of Inigo. Buckingham had ordered his mansion near Charing Cross, once the abode of the Archbishops of York, to be pulled down ; and, while streets and alleys which are still named after him were rising on that site, chose to reside in Dowgate.1 These, however, were rare exceptions. Almost all the noble families of England had long migrated beyond the walls. The district r- ,_• ^. where most of their town houses stood lies between the CityFashionable . J part of the and the regions which are now considered as fashionable. Acapi few great men still retained their hereditary hotels in

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