Note 142 — V THE HEIRESS OF GREAT BRITAIN (HERRENHAUSEN, 1701-1714)
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‘They say,’ she writes in 1711, ‘that the Bishops are busily preaching Passive Obedience, although they had much better hold their tongues and not interfere in matters of State.’ Thus, notwithstanding her Stewart blood and her own protestations of impartiality, she had something of the Whig in her, after all.