This project makes available a list of town notables who were displaced or appointed in the time leading up to the Glorious Revolution. The list will identify opponents and partisans of James II who appear in legal cases and other documents both before and after the Glorious Revolution. Those other documents will thus assume their proper context and contribute to a better understanding of the local aspects of the Glorious Revolution.
This page will be segmented as the database becomes too large for one page and as other documents accumulate relevant to the Glorious Revolution.
The researcher primarily responsible for this material is Alan Cooper, indentified in individual entries as "ac".
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Berkshire
- Wallingford
- Removed (30 August 1685) [1] Anthony Leaver, Sr., alderman; John Wylder, John Riggins, William Maxey, burgesses
- Appointed
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Cornwall
- Ponsmurr alias Grampound
- Removed (21 January 1687) [2] Anthony Moore, Stephen Trezize, Elias Purdue, Joseph Tremaine, capital burgesses
- Appointed
- Tintagel
- Removed (6 May 1685) [3] Degory Taylor, Nathan Williams, Sr., John Symmons, Charles Suxton, George Miller, capital burgesses -- ac
- Appointed
- Truro
- Removed (28 January 1687) [4] Henry Vincent, Justice of the Peace and capital burgess; Robert Avery, alderman and capital burgess; William Cood, Edward Vincent, Sr., Walter Vincent, Thomas Cloke, James Edwards, Walter Jones, capital burgesses
- Appointed
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Derbyshire
- Derby
- Election set aside (5 February 1686) [5] John Cheshire, alderman
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Devon
- Dartmouth
- Removed (11 March 1685) [6] Arthur Holdesworth, mayor; William Voysey, burgess
- Appointed
- Exeter
- Removed (28 May 1687) [7] Thomas Gibbon, Esq., deputy recorder
- Appointed
- Honiton
- Removed (12 June 1685) [8] Sir Thomas Put, mayor
- Appointed
- Totnes
- Removed (28 May 1687) [9] Thomas Gibbon, deputy recorder
- Appointed
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Essex
- Harwich
- Removed (5 December 1686) [10] Thomas Langley, mayor
- Appointed
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Kent
- Canterbury
- Removed (19 September 1686) [11] Sir Anthony Aucher, mayor
- Appointed
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Lancashire
- Lancaster
- Removed (3 April 1685) [12] Josua Partington, alderman; Abraham Partington, bailiff
- Appointed
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Lincolnshire
- Boston
- Removed at his own request (11 February 1687) [13] Adlard Keyme, gent., alderman
- Appointed
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London
- Clothworkers
- Removed (5 May 1685) [14] Robert Stephenson, assistant of the company -- ac
- Appointed
- Grocers
- Removed (5 May 1685) [15] John Coldham, assistant of the company -- ac
- Appointed
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Monmouthshire
- Monmouth
- Removed (22 April 1687) [16] Thomas Basset, schoolmaster at the Free School
- Appointment (22 April 1687) [17] Thomas Wright, schoolmaster at the Free School
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Northamptonshire
- Northampton
- Removed (3 July 1686) [18] John Willoughby, John Hows, aldermen
- Appointed
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Northumberland
- Berwick upon Tweed
- Removed (14 January 1687) [19] Ferdinando Foster, Justice of the Peace; Samuell Foster, Robert Rodham, Richard Davison, Joseph Rosden, John Saltonstall, George Wake, Henry Thompson, common council men
- Appointed
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Somerset
- Bristol
- Removed (13 June 1686) [20] Sir Richard Hart, alderman
- Removed at his own request (4 February 1687) [21] John Moore, Esq., alderman and common council man
- Removed at his own request (29 April 1687) [22] Henry Combe, common council man
- Appointed
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Staffordshire
- Newcastle-under-Lyme
- Removed (12 April 1685) [23] Nathaniel Beard, alderman; Humphry Burrows, alderman; John Butler, bailiff and burgess; John Burgesse, bailiff and burgess -- ac
- Removed (14 May 1686) [24] Thomas Baddily, deputy mayor; John Burgesse, John Burrowes, William Marsh, capital burgesses
- Appointed
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Warwickshire
- Coventry
- Removed (27 June 1685) [25] Edward Owen, Thomas Lawrence, James Naylor, aldermen
- Appointed
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Worcestershire
- Worcester
- Removed (17 October 1686) [26] Henry Towneshend, town clerk
- Appointed
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Yorkshire
- York
- Removed (18 March 1687) [27] William Kitchingman, town clerk
- Appointed (18 March 1687) [28] William Whitehead, town clerk
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