what did king james 2 do in the glorious revolution?

Question

short answer. not complicated words. I CANNOT UNDERSTAND COMPlICATED WORDS.

Answer 1

He was trying to convert England back to Catholicism and away from being Protestant.

The government sought to remove him and invited William of Orange to lead an invasion force and take over the monarchy.

Despite being defeated, he was the focus of the Jacobite uprisings in the mid 1700s.

Answer 2

King James The 2

Answer 3

What James did mainly was run. James II, like his father Charles II, was suspected of secretly plotting to overthrow protestantism and return Catholicism to England. The led to a rebellion called the Glorious Revolution. It was called that mainly because, unlike the English Civil War half a century earlier, it was quick, bloodless, and decisive. William of Orange was invited to England to become the new King. James and the Stuart dynasty went into exile. They made some attempts to return in the 18th century, but never were able to get back to England.

Answer 4

He ran - he even lost the Great Seal in the Thames in his rush to escape. He did try to return via Ireland but he was soundly beaten at the Battle of the Boyne.

Answer 5

he tried to fight off William, then he fled England, then he went to Ireland and tried to re-invade England. He lost, then gave up and went to France

Answer 6

He was forced to leave the throne. William and Mary took his place.

Simple enough?

Answer 7

He had lots of nosebleeds, freaked out, tossed his seal in the Themes, and ran.

Answer 8

King Charles 11 was accused of signing a secret clause in the Anglo-French 'Treaty of Dover', which promised to re-establish the Roman Catholic Church in England, against the wishes of the Protestant population. James II was now accused of pursuing the same 'Grand Design'.


a. The Treaty of Dover of 22nd May 1670 was between Charles II and King Louis XIV of France. It mainly concerned international affairs, but a secret clause concerning religion was included. Charles had informed Louis that he wished to become a Catholic, but feared the republicans would use the announcement of his change of religion as a pretext to arouse support for the overthrow of the Monarchy.

Louis, for reasons of international politics, wished Charles to remain in power. Louis therefore promised that if Charles should carry out his religious wish and needed help in maintaining his Crown, he would loan 6,000 troops to be paid for by Charles and to be under Charles' command. The loaning and hiring of armed forces between countries was a common practice in that century. There was nothing in the clause concerning any alleged plot to impose the Catholic religion on the rest of the people of England.

b. When Catholic refugees in France spoke of their hopes of re-establishing their Church in England again, they used the French words "étabiir" or "s'établir" which James himself used.
These words mean:

'to fix, to erect, to set up, to establish, to found, to assert, to establish oneself, to take up one's residence, to settle down, to set up in business.

The English word "establish" is used in this sense today. For example we read, 'all subsequent attempts to establish Christianity in Tibet have met with but temporary success'.

It was dishonest of the Whigs to distort the meaning of the words, and to assert that Catholics were planning to 'Establish' the Catholic Church in the way the Anglican Church was the Established religion of the State, with all other religions suppressed.

James explained to Barrillon, the French Ambassador, that his aim, regarding the Catholic Church, was to establish it in such a manner that it could not be ruined or destroyed.

c. Charles was 53 years old when he died. Although James was two years younger, he had poorer health, so felt that he would have little time in which to achieve his aim. James refused to disinherit his daughter Mary, so knew a Protestant queen would follow him, who in turn would be succeeded by the Protestant Anne.

James informed the French ambassador that there was no chance of mass conversions in the near future. So the suggestion that James believed he could forcibly convert 5 1/2 million Protestants within a few years, and be so successful that they would not allow a Protestant queen to reverse the process, is to enter the world of fantasy. The only 'force' in the country was the army consisting mainly of Protestants.