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  1. Name James, Duke of York painted in a Romanesque costume. The Tories were originally known as the Court Party. As a political term, Tory was an insult (derived from the Middle Irish word tóraidhe, modern Irish tóraí, meaning "outlaw", "robber", from the Irish word tóir, meaning "pursuit" since outlaws were "pursued men") that entered English politics during the Exclusion Bill crisis of ...

    • 1834; 189 years ago
    • 1678; 345 years ago
  2. The accused had their hands and feet tied together. They were then thrown into water. If they floated they were guilty but if they sank they were innocent. Medieval Punishment: Ordeal by Combat. Noblemen would fight (usually to the death) in combat with their accusers. The winner of the battle would be considered to be in the right.

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  4. The Conservative and Unionist Party, commonly the Conservative Party and colloquially known as the Tories, [19] is one of the two main political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Labour Party. It is the current governing party, having won the 2019 general election, and has been the primary governing party in the United Kingdom since ...

    • 1834; 189 years ago (original form), 1912; 111 years ago (current form)
  5. May 21, 2018 · TORIES. governing party. opposition party. "unionist party". bibliography. On 14 July 1789, when the Bastille was attacked by a revolutionary mob, there were, save perhaps for James Boswell (1740–1795) and a few politically eccentric High Church clergymen, few individuals in Great Britain who would have identified themselves as Tories.

  6. Jun 8, 2017 · Covering the Middle Ages to modern times, Harris tells the story of how kings and queens raised their children. We interviewed the historian by email: Your book covers over a thousand years of history, going from the medieval to the modern. Why did you want to give readers such a wide-ranging view of the topic?

  7. The Tories, representing a dwindling cause, became the party of defense, — of ‘Conservatism,’as the nineteenth century called it, — and, their case being thought desperate, they employed ...

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