List of Illustrations

Frontispiece: Whig woodcut depicting alleged acts of Catholic cruelty against Protestants, and the Spanish Armada of 1588, from The Protestant Tutor, 1679 (British Library)

Introduction (pp. 2–3): Tory print representing the tyranny of republican rule in the 1650s (British Museum)

Part One (pp. 40–41): Whig print from the Exclusion Crisis, 1681 (British Museum)

Part Two (pp. 208–9): Woodcut illustrating punishments meted out to Presbyterian dissidents in Scotland during the reign of Charles II. From Alexander Shields' A Hind Let Loose, 1687 (British Library)

Plate Section

1 Charles I and James, Duke of York, by Sir Peter Lely, 1647 (Bridgeman Art Library/Syon House, Middlesex)

2 Drawing of James II, by Robert White, pencil on vellum (Bridgeman Art Library)

3 Louise de Kéroualle, The Duchess of Portsmouth, by the studio of Sir Peter Lely (Bridgeman Art Library/Royal Hospital Chelsea)

4 Dutch attack on the River Medway, June 1667, engraving after Romeyn de Hooghe (Bridgeman Art Library)

5 The Great Fire of London, in a seventeenth-century print by Lieve Verschuier (Bridgeman Art Library)

6 James Butler, First Duke of Ormonde, by Sir Peter Lely, c. 1665 (by courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery)

7 The Duke and Duchess of Lauderdale, by Sir Peter Lely, c. 1670s (National Trust)

8 Portrait of Thomas Osborne, 1st Earl of Danby, by Sir Godfrey Kneller, c. 1670s (Bridgeman Art Library)

9 Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, in a miniature by Samuel Cooper, c. 1670 (Philadelphia Museum of Art/CORBIS)

10 ‘The Loyal London Prentice’, Tory broadside, 1681 (British Library)

11 ‘Tory, Towzer and Tantivee’, Whig print form the Exclusion Crisis, 1681 (British Library)

12 Titus Oates, by Thomas Hawker, c. 1678 (by courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery)

13 ‘The Committee, or popery in masquerade’, Tory print, 1680 (British Museum)

14 The Solemn Mock Procession', 1680 (British Library)