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See also:GREEN RIBBON See also:CLUB , one of the earliest of the loosely combined associations which met from See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time to time in See also:London taverns or See also:coffee-houses for See also:political purposes in the 17th See also:century. It had its See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
meeting-See also:place at the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King's See also:Head See also:tavern at See also:Chancery See also:Lane End, and was therefore known as the " King's Head Club." It seems to have been founded about the See also:year 1675 as a resort for members of the political party hostile to the See also:court, and as these associates were in the See also:habit of wearing in their hats a See also:bow, or " bob," of green ribbon, as a distinguishing badge useful for the purpose of mutual recognition in See also:street brawls, the name of the club became changed, about 1679, to the Green Ribbon Club. The frequenters of the club were the extreme See also:faction of the See also:country party, the men who supported See also:Titus See also:Oates, and who were concerned in the See also:Rye See also:House See also:Plot and See also:Monmouth's See also:rebellion. See also:Roger See also:North tells us that " they admitted all strangers that were confidingly introduced, for it was a See also:main end of their institutions to make proselytes, especially of the raw estated youth newly come to See also:town." According to See also:Dryden (See also:Absalom and Achitophel) drinking was the See also:chief attraction, and the members talked and organized See also:sedition over their cups. See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Dangerfield supplied the court with a See also:list of See also:forty-eight members of the Green Ribbon Club in 1679; and although Dangerfield's numerous perjuries make his unsupported See also:evidence worthless, it receives See also:confirmation as regards several names from a list given to See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James II. by Nathan See also:Wade in 1885 (Harleian See also:MSS. 6845), while a number of more eminent personages are mentioned in The See also:Cabal, a See also:satire published in 168o, as also frequenting the club. From these See also:sources it would appear that the See also:duke of Monmouth himself, and statesmen like See also:Halifax, See also:Shaftesbury, See also:- BUCKINGHAM
- BUCKINGHAM, EARLS, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
- BUCKINGHAM, FIRST DUKE
- BUCKINGHAM, GEORGE VILLIERS, 1ST DUKE 0E1
- BUCKINGHAM, GEORGE VILLIERS, 2ND DUKE 0E1 (1628-1687)
- BUCKINGHAM, HENRY STAFFORD, 2ND DUKE OF3 (1454-1483)
- BUCKINGHAM, JAMES SILK (1786-1855)
Buckingham, See also:Macclesfield, See also:Cavendish, See also:Bedford, See also:Grey of Warke, See also:Herbert of Cherbury, were among those who fraternized at the King's Head Tavern with third-See also:rate writers such as Scroop, See also:Mulgrave and See also:Shadwell, with remnants of the Cromwellian regime like Falconbridge, See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:Ireton and Claypole, with such profligates as See also:Lord See also:Howard of Escrik and See also:Sir Henry See also:Blount, and with scoundrels of the type of Dangerfield and Oates. An allusion to Dangerfield, notorious among his other crimes and treacheries for a seditious See also:paper found in a See also:meal-tub, is found in connexion with the club in The Loyal Subjects' See also:Litany, one of the innumerable satires of the See also:period, in which occur the lines:
" From the dark-lanthorn Plot, and the Green Ribbon Club From See also:brewing sedition in a sanctified Tub,
Libera nos, Domine."
The club was the headquarters of the Whig opposition to the court, and its members were active promoters of See also:conspiracy and sedition. The See also:president was either Lord Shaftesbury or Sir See also:Robert Peyton, M.P. for See also:Middlesex, who afterwards turned informer. The Green Ribbon Club served both as a debating society and an intelligence See also:department for the Whig faction. Questions under discussion in See also:parliament were here threshed out by the members over their See also:tobacco and See also:ale; the latest See also:news from See also:Westminster or the See also:city was retailed in the tavern, " for some or others were continually coming and going," says Roger North, " to import or export news and stories." See also:Slander of the court or the Tories was invented in the club and sedulously spread over the town, and See also:measures were there concerted for pushing on the Exclusion See also:Bill, or for promoting the pretensions of the duke of Monmouth. The popular credulity as to See also:Catholic outrages in the days of the Popish Plot was stimulated by the scandalmongers of the club, whose members went about in See also:silk See also:armour, supposed to be See also:bullet See also:- PROOF (in M. Eng. preove, proeve, preve, &°c., from O. Fr . prueve, proeve, &c., mod. preuve, Late. Lat. proba, probate, to prove, to test the goodness of anything, probus, good)
proof, " in which any See also:man dressed up was as safe as a house," says North, " for it was impossible to strike him for laughing "; while in their pockets, " for street and See also:crowd-See also:work," they carried the weapon of offence invented by See also:Stephen See also:College and known as the " See also:Protestant See also:Flail."
The See also:genius of Shaftesbury found in the Green Ribbon Club the means of constructing the first systematized political organization in See also:England. North relates that every See also:post conveyed the news and tales legitimated there, as also the malign constructions of all the See also:good actions of the See also:government, especially to places where elections were depending, to shape men's characters into See also:fit qualifications to be chosen or rejected." In the See also:general See also:election of See also:January and See also:February 1679 the Whig See also:interest throughout the country was managed and controlled by a See also:committee sitting at the club in Chancery Lane. The club's organizing activity was also notably effective in the agitation of the Petitioners in 1679. This celebrated See also:movement was engineered from the Green Ribbon Club with all the skill and See also:energy of a See also:modern See also:caucus. The petitions were prepared in London and sent down to every See also:part of the country, where paid canvassers took them from house to house See also:collecting signatures with an See also:air of authority that made refusal difficult. The See also:great " See also:pope-burning " processions in 168o and 1681, on the anniversary of See also:Queen See also:Elizabeth's See also:accession, were also organized by the club. They ended by the See also:lighting of a huge bon-See also:fire in front of the club windows; and as they proved an effective means of inflaming the religious passions of the populace, it was at the Green Ribbon Club that the See also:mobile vulgus first received the See also:nickname of " the See also:mob." The activity of the club was, however, See also:short-lived. The failure to carry the Exclusion Bill, one of the favourite projects of the faction, was a See also:blow to its See also:influence, which declined rapidly after the See also:flight of Shaftesbury, the See also:confiscation of the city of London's See also:charter, and the See also:discovery of the Rye House Plot, in which many of its members were implicated. In 1685 See also:John Ayloffe, who was found to have been " a clubber at the King's Head Tavern and a green-ribon man," was executed in front of the premises on the spot where the " pope-burning " bon-fires had been kindled; and although the tavern was still in existence in the time of Queen See also:Anne, the Green Ribbon Club which made it famous did not survive the accession of James II. The precise situation of the King's Head Tavern, described by North as " over against the Inner See also:Temple See also:Gate," was at the corner of See also:Fleet Street and Chancery Lane, on the See also:east See also:side of the latter thoroughfare.
See Sir See also:George Sitwell, The First Whig (See also:Scarborough, 1894), containing an See also:illustration of the Green Ribbon Club and a pope-burning procession; Roger North, Examen (London, 1740); Anchitell Grey, Debates of the House of See also:Commons, 1667-1684, vol. viii. (to vols., London, 1769); Sir John Bramston, Autobiography (See also:Camden See also:Soc., London, 1845). (R. J.
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