ABSTRACT
This chapter considers one remarkable strand of Jacobite ideology that took the form of 'Whig Jacobitism'. Emerging almost contemporaneously with the Revolution itself, the Whig Jacobite critique invoked classically Whig libertarian principles in order to level devastatingly comprehensive charges of political tyranny against the Revolution settlement and William III's new regime. Whig values combined with Country concerns to produce a broad critical attack on the Williamite administration for its abuse of executive power, while also offering a series of constructive reforms aimed at enhancing parliamentary independence and the liberty of the subject. While the phenomenon of Whig Jacobitism in the politics and the conspiracies of the 1690s has previously been explored by Paul Hopkins and Paul Monod, its powerful presence in Jacobite political argument deserves fuller exposition. William's administration also attracted Whigs whom the Jacobites held to have utterly betrayed their former defence of civil rights.
