As Young England was founded to repurify and remonarchize the Tory Party , so Coningsby's inheritance of his grandfather's estate through Flora relegitimizes an otherwise traditional ( albeit roundabout ) chain of inheritance :

[he] […] having served his prince well both in Afric and India, and being ill rewarded, renounced his country , disnaturalizing himself as the custom then was

a priestlike habit of crimson and purple

Infuse his breast with magnanimity.