King William III

Standard Name: William III, King
Used Form: William of Orange

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Wealth and Poverty Sarah Butler
This SB , whom her editors believe not to be the writer, received a pension from the British crown under William III , but it ended on the king's death, and she later experienced debtors'...
Wealth and Poverty Lady Lucy Herbert
Most of the remaining Powis family estates, valued at £10,000 a year, were re-assigned to Whigs by William III after 1688. It took LLH 's relations years of struggle to recoup some of them.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Katharine Tynan
Other poems in this volume treat distinctively Irish themes. The Flight of the Wild Geese mourns the loss of Irish soldiers going as mercenaries (the wild geese) to continental armies after William III 's...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Susanna Hopton
In this remarkably self-assured letter SH takes a challenging, uncompromising tone. She urges Geers to leave the mainstream (schismatic) Anglican Church , now it has vowed loyalty to William and Mary , and to enter...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elizabeth Singer Rowe
It gathered together published and unpublished work (some written at boarding-school) both religious and secular: hymns, epistles, odes, pastorals (including an imitation of Anne Killigrew and an elegy for Queen Mary ), praise of King William
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Maria De Fleury
Her poem is Miltonic in style, with frequent echoes of Paradise Lost, although written in couplets. Accepting a designation applied to her by ideological enemies, MDF opens by comparing herself to the biblical Deborah...
Textual Production Margaret Fell
MF composed one of the last of her writings included in her collected works: To King William (personally delivered to the king by Susan Ingram ); the others were To Edmund Waller, and An...
Textual Production Agnes Strickland
Agnes and Elizabeth Strickland (the latter, as usual, not credited on the title page) turned to a more esoteric subject in their The Lives of the Seven Bishops Committed to the Tower in 1688...
Textual Production Aphra Behn
After James II had fled the country in 1688, AB received a flattering invitation from Gilbert Burnet (who in 1682 had tried to divide her from Anne Wharton on moral grounds) to welcome the new...
Textual Production Joan Whitrow
JW called people and monarch to repentance in a fifteen-page pamphlet, The Humble Address of the Widow Whitrowe to King William.
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Textual Production Joan Whitrow
JW approached the king again in The Humble Salutation and Faithful Greeting of the Widow Whitrowe to King William.
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Textual Production Joan Whitrow
JW followed her recent address to King William with To Queen Mary : the Humble Salutation, and Faithful Greeting of the Widow Whitrowe.
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Textual Production Joan Whitrow
JW addressed a New Year message to both the joint monarchs: To King William and Queen Mary , Grace and Peace, The Widow Whitrow's Humble Thanksgiving to the Lord.
This text is available online...
Textual Production Joan Whitrow
In a longer pamphlet entitled The Widow Whiterows Humble Thanksgiving for the King s Safe Return, JW relates parts of her life-story.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon.
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Textual Production Mary Pix
He had been a Gentleman of the Bedchamber to William III , and at the time of his death was one of the Commissioners for the Union of Scotland with England.
Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Editor Gibbs, Vicary, St Catherine Press.
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1662: An Act of Settlement confirmed that poor...

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1662

An Act of Settlement confirmed that poor relief could be received only in one's parish of settlement (that is, in one's birthplace).

23 October 1677: The marriage of the future monarchs William...

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23 October 1677

The marriage of the future monarchs William and Marywas now declared.

30 June 1688: A letter was signed by national leaders inviting...

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30 June 1688

A letter was signed by national leaders inviting William of Orange to assume the throne of England.

8 November 1688: William of Orange (husband of James II's...

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8 November 1688

William of Orange (husband of James II 's elder daughter, Mary ) landed near Torbay in Devon with a view to gaining control of Britain.

18 December 1688: William of Orange entered London (the same...

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18 December 1688

William of Orange entered London (the same day that James II finally left it) and held court at St James's Palace.

February 1689 to October 1791: The Williamite War was waged in Ireland between...

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February 1689 to October 1791

The Williamite War was waged in Ireland between supporters of the deposed James II (who landed at Kinsale on 12 March 1689 with substantial French forces) and supporters of William of Orange (who had assumed...

13 February 1689: James II having fled the kingdom the previous...

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13 February 1689

James II having fled the kingdom the previous December, and his place been taken by his elder daughter and her husband, they assumed the throne jointly as King William III and Queen Mary II ...

10 May 1689: William and Mary were crowned. Bishop Burnet...

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10 May 1689

William and Mary were crowned. Bishop Burnet preached the coronation sermon.

27 July 1689: John Graham of Claverhouse, Viscount Dundee,...

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27 July 1689

John Graham of Claverhouse, Viscount Dundee , led a force of Scottish Highlanders loyal to James II against William ite English soldiers in the pass of Killiecrankie.

25 November 1689: The House of Commons accepted the final wording...

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25 November 1689

The House of Commons accepted the final wording of the Revolution Settlement, or what became known as the Bill of Rights, the nearest thing to a British constitution.

12 July 1690: William III heavily defeated James II at...

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12 July 1690

William III heavily defeated James II at the battle of the Boyne in Ireland, in which 62,000 men fought.

October 1690: William III addressed the General Assembly...

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October 1690

William III addressed the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland , speaking against extremism in the newly established national church. The more radical Covenanting Cameronians thereupon split from the main body.

12 July 1691: At the battle of Aughrim in county Galway,...

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12 July 1691

At the battle of Aughrim in county Galway, William III 's forces in Ireland (having just taken the town of Athlone with fearful destruction) won a decisive victory over those of James II ...

October 1691: Following William III's victory over James...

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October 1691

Following William III 's victory over James II at the Battle of the Boyne the previous summer, the Treaty of Limerick severely curtailed the rights of Irish Roman Catholics to practise their religion, own property...

28 December 1694: Queen Mary died of smallpox during a severe...

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28 December 1694

Queen Mary died of smallpox during a severe epidemic, leaving her husband, William , to reign alone.

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