OCR A Level History A ( Y109/01) The Making of Georgian Britain 1678–c.1760 Question paper June 2025

OCR A Level History A ( Y109/01) The Making of Georgian Britain 1678–c.1760 Question paper June 2025 Section A The Glorious Revolution Study the four sources and answer Question 1. 1 'It was James' actions in the autumn of 1688 that led to the loss of his throne. Use the four sources in their historical context to assess how far they support this view. [30] Source A: In October 1688, the diarist John Evelyn gives an account of popular responses to the king's actions. In the meantime, [the king] called over 5,000 Irish, and 4,000 Scots, and continued to remove Protestants and put in Papists at Portsmouth and other places of trust, and retained the Jesuits about him, increasing the universal discontent. It brought people to so desperate a pass, that they seemed passionately to long for and desire the landing of that Prince, whom they looked on to be their deliverer from Popish tyranny, praying incessantly for an east wind, which was said to be the only hindrance of his expedition with a numerous army ready to make a descent. To such a strange temper, and unheard-of in former times, was this poor nation reduced, and of which I was an eye-witness. John Evelyn, Diary, 7 October, 1688 Source B: The French Ambassador describes the situation at Court in London. I can never forget the confusion the court was in. The king knew not whom to trust and the fright was so great that they were apt to believe an impossible report just then brought in that the prince of Orange was come with twelve thousand horses, between Warminster and Salisbury. Everybody in this hurly-burly was thinking of himself and nobody minded the king, who came up to Dr Radcliffe and asked him what was good for the bleeding of his nose. The French Ambassador, letter to Louis XIV, December 1688