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The Tories were members of two political parties which existed sequentially in the Kingdom of England the Kingdom of Great Britain and later the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from the 17th to the early 19th centuriesThe first Tories emerged in 1678 in England when they opposed the Whig-supported Exclusion Bill which set out to disinherit the heir presumptive James Duke of York (who eventually became James II and VII).
