Why that Papist SOB. He told me nothing! Although it always did sound rather like one of those near-death conversion deals the Jesuits specialized in.
On the whole, though, not being a low-church kind of guy, my prejudices do run in the Stuart direction, rather than toward the broad-beamed Hanoverians. Neither did I ever develop warm feelings for their predecessors, William and Mary, nor those Parliaments, either.
The GR? Well, it was an "R." The "G" part is a little shaky.
Obviously, that should have been 1668, not 1868. Sorry bout that.