William IIIArticle Free Pass King of England An invitation,
signed by a representative selection of James’s opponents, was
dispatched on July 10 (Old Style), and on November 5 (November
15, New Style) William and his army landed at Brixham on Tor Bay
in Devon and proceeded almost unopposed to London. James fled to
France, and the so-called Convention Parliament, summoned in
January 1689, declared that James had abdicated and offered the
vacant throne, with an accompanying Declaration of Right, to
William and Mary. They were proclaimed in February and crowned
on April 21. The crown of Scotland was offered to them in the
same month. The revolution in England had been accomplished
almost without bloodshed, but in Scotland and Ireland there was
armed resistance. This collapsed in Scotland in 1689, but the
country remained troubled and unsettled throughout William’s
reign. In 1692 Alexander MacDonald of Glen Coe and some of his
clansmen were murdered in cold blood for tardiness in taking the
oath of allegiance to