ABSTRACT
Under Queen Anne the supremacy of the Protestants was never once threatened by the Catholics, nor the liberties of the subject by the monarch; and even if on her death Bolingbroke had restored the Pretender, that prince would have been bound to the High Churchmen and Tories as helplessly as George I was bound to the Latitudinarians and Whigs. The Whig ministers under Anne continued the financial system that Montague had begun under William, basing the policy of the country on public borrowing. There was one bit of old England that was on the side of the Whigs. The great days of the yeomen were over. The game laws passed by the gentry had robbed the poorer yeomen of an important part of their means of livelihood, because, in the eyes of these defenders of property, the private inheritance of a poor man was as little sacred as the common lands and rights of the village.
