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=== Glorious Revolution === [[File:William III Landing at Brixham, Torbay, 5 November 1688.jpg|thumb|Equestrian portrait of [[William III of England|William III]] by [[Jan Wyck]], commemorating the landing at Brixham, Torbay, 5 November 1688]] After the [[Glorious Revolution]] of 1688, Queen [[Mary II of England|Mary II]] and King [[William III of England|William III]] governed with both Whigs and Tories, despite the fact that many of the Tories still supported the deposed Roman Catholic [[James II of England|James II]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Judd |first1=Gerrit P. |title=A History of Civilization |date=1966 |publisher=Macmillan |location=New York |oclc=224015746 |page=409|quote=Some [Tories] remained loyal to James II}}</ref> William saw that the Tories were generally friendlier to royal authority than the Whigs and he employed both groups in his government. His early ministry was largely Tory, but gradually the government came to be dominated by the so-called [[Whig Junto|Junto Whigs]], a group of younger Whig politicians who led a tightly organised political grouping. The increasing dominance of the Junto led to a split among the Whigs, with the so-called Country Whigs seeing the Junto as betraying their principles for office. The Country Whigs, led by [[Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer|Robert Harley]], gradually merged with the Tory opposition in the later 1690s.<ref name="Keith Feiling 1714">{{cite book |first=Keith |last=Feiling |title=A History of the Tory Party, 1640β1714 |year=1924 |publisher=Clarendon Press |oclc=503503 }}</ref>
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