James II & the "Glorious Revolution"
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James's Exile in the West Country
As of May 1685 as I said the parliament is mostly Tory it's fairly friendly. It willingly votes to enable him to levy various taxes and raise money for military and other purposes but the House of Commons firmly rejects his idea of exempting Catholics from the test act so Whigs and Tories in parliament still largely want to keep that test act in place. If they had approved this exception to the test act it would effectively have made Catholicism another state sponsored religion alongside the Church of England. This turned out to be just the beginning of a series of escalating events that heightened the tension and eventually the power struggle between James and Charles.
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