sentences:  While that would usually equate to "tory" in the 1740s, Ralph wrote from the point of view of someone outside London, someone without an interest in affairs of court.His history is superior to Rapin's London-bound history and addressed economic history for the first time in English historiography (Okie 875).Ralph points out the corruption and absurdity of all the courtiers and Parliamentarians who had acted out of self-interest.