ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the Satires from The Mohawks; a Satirical Poem. James Stuart, king from 1685–88, the last Catholic monarch in England, was deposed by parliament in the so-called Glorious Revolution of 1688 for his popish sympathies. The followers of the House of Stuart were referred to as Jacobites, after the man they saw as the legal heir to the throne, James Stuart, eldest son of the deposed king James II. It was the Convention Parliament of 1689 that dismissed James II. Thereafter he took refuge at the court of Louis XIV, in France. Both the nobility and the Church were exempt from the payment of taxes in pre-revolutionary France. Political conservatives in France and England often blamed French support for the Americans as a cause for revolution in their own country. The existence of what is called the Radical Press is a necessary consequence of the state of parties in Parliament.
