Those "conservative" principles were classically liberal. In early modernity, classical liberals (what we would call neoliberals or libertarians today) were opposed by monarchists, who were the real conservatives/traditionalists. It's confusing, but I wrote a long series on how "modern conservativism" is an oxymoron. The series is encapsulated here:

https://medium.com/grim-tidings/telling-the-brutal-truth-about-conservatism-89984745f17?sk=174085419fe90365a3544149dc494c58