...their shared acknowledgment of the inability of James II to work with Parliament, combined with his reckless Catholic appointments, bringing both the political and religious spheres of the monarchy under fire, which was a situation reaching its climax in 1688 when James established an alliance with Catholic France; arrested Archbishop Sancroft and six other bishops for failing to proclaim the Catholic faith; tampered with private property and historic rights; and produced a male heir after abandoning Anglicanism for Catholicism, which destroyed Parliament's hopes that the crown would pass to the Protestant children of James' first marriage and thus forcing Parliament to appeal to William of Orange, urging him to save England from a Catholic takeover, with William gathering his forces and landing in England in November of 1688, which was immediately follwed by William's professional troops welcoming by the English landholders, thus intimidating James, who was captured while fleeing from London, but William ensured him safe passage to France, though unfortunatey James, feeling alone and realizing his lack of popular support, abdicated and accepted his exile in France, and though James made one attempt to regain the crown, his French and Irish forces were soundly defeated at the Battle of Boyne and James returned to France to live the rest of his life in exile with his thoughts and a coconut with a small hall drilled in the side which was the perfect size for...
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Ham-fisted ham fisting.
