Whiggamore Raid

In giving them this name they seemed to credit those who had put themselves forward as champions of the prerogative and hereditary right with secret leanings toward Catholicism.

The Tories revenged themselves by calling their opponents Whigs, from the Whiggamores, by which name a body of fanatical Scottish Covenanters were commonly known in the lowlands of Scotland.

The rage of party faction was very violent in England, and Louis XIV did all he could to foment it.

He did not wish the king and his parliament to be on good terms, for then Charles II would be able to take up an independent position and free himself from his disgraceful position of dependence.