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1ĭuring the next twenty years the Court-Country line was obliterated by its Whig-Tory counterpart.

For of the servants of the Crown and their adherents about one half were Whigs and one half Tories. And these two great lines were intersecting lines. To omit minor distinctions, there was the great line which separated the Whig party from the Tory party and there was the great line which separated the official men and their friends and dependents, who were sometimes called the Court party, from those who were sometimes nicknamed the Grumbletonians, and sometimes honoured with the appellation of the Country party. At the beginning of the period, in Macaulay’s words, each of the two Houses was divided and sub-divided by several lines. Between the Revolution and the Hanoverian accession a two-party system developed.