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A Grand Review on Hounslow Heath, 1687 (pen and ink with wash)
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A Grand Review on Hounslow Heath, 1687 (pen and ink with wash)
A Grand Review on Hounslow Heath, 1687.
Sepia pen and ink with grey blue wash by Willem van de Velde the Elder (1611 (c)-1693), 1687 or 1689.
Hounslow Heath was an area of open land west of London. King James II (1685-1688) increased the size of the regular Army and held annual military reviews there. Holding a military muster so close to the seat of government at Westminster was deliberate the King was using the Army to threaten Parliament.
The King thought that with the Army under his control he would be able to introduce unpopular reforms and move towards a more absolutist style of government, ruling with less need to consult Parliament.
James attempts to secure religious toleration for Roman Catholics, and the dismissal of Protestant officers from his Army, led a small group of Protestant statesmen to invite his son-in-law, William of Orange, to England. James fled and, in the Glorious Revolution of 1688, a Protestant monarchy was reinstated under King William III and Queen Mary II.
Parliament never forgot the threat posed by Royal control of the Army. In 1689 it introduced the Bill of Rights, which withdrew the monarch's right to suspend or implement laws without Parliamentary consent. That same year it also passed the Mutiny Act. This required Parliament to give annual consent to the continuation of a standing army. No longer would British monarchs be able to govern without Parliament for extended periods of time, or keep up an army without Parliamentary approval.
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