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Junto

Pejorative name (from the Spanish, junta) given to a group of Whig ministers who held power under William III 1696-97 and Queen Anne 1708-10. The group included Lords Somers, Sunderland, Wharton, Ormond, and Earl Halifax, all Whigs who favoured an aggressive foreign policy against the French in support of British commercial interests.
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