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King William III
Standard Name: William III, King
Used Form: William of Orange
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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. This text is available online from the Women Writers Project
, www.wwp.northeastern.edu |
| Textual Production | Joan Whitrow | JW
approached the king again in The Humble Salutation and Faithful Greeting of the Widow Whitrowe to King William. This text is available online from the Women Writers Project
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| Textual Features | Anna Maria Hall | This novel is set in France, England, and Ireland. The action occurs in the seventeenth century as a Huguenot girl escapes oppression in France by fleeing to England and then Ireland... |
| Textual Features | May Crommelin | The book is headed with romantic lines from Thomas Davies [sic]
about successive migrants and visitors to Ireland, from the brown Phoenician to the iron Lords of Normandy. Crommelin, May. Orange Lily. Ullans Press. 1 |
| Textual Features | Mary Pix | The tendency of the story is anti-Catholic, but criticism is also levelled against the king
's favourites. |
| Textual Features | May Crommelin | She treats there the atrocities suffered by her Protestant Huguenot
ancestors in France in the seventeenth century, and the part played by her family in British history as supporters of William III
. Crommelin, May. “Introduction”. Orange Lily, edited by Philip Robinson, Ullans Press, p. vii - xi. x |
| Textual Features | Elinor James | James's strong admonitory style has much in common with that of religious prophets. She is equally ready to cross swords with Quakers and Dissenters on the one hand and Catholics on the other, to venerate... |
| Textual Features | M. Marsin | The title-page of the first of these explains that it is laid down in a plain, and easie method, fitted to the understanding of the meanest reader. English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/. |
| Textual Features | Sarah Fyge | |
| Textual Features | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | In the society that Morgan depicts, the Irish Catholic gentry are mostly absent, scattered in European exile. The peasantry, dirt-poor but generous-hearted, include Tim O'Leary, schoolmaster of a hedge school, scholar and expert in Irish... |
| Residence | Mary Ann Cavendish Bradshaw | Ancestors bearing the same name as her father had first bought the Blarney Castle in County Cork estate in 1688 (after Donogh McCarthy, fourth Earl of Clancarthy
, had forfeited it for supporting James II |
| Residence | Elizabeth Burnet | During the reign of James II
, Elizabeth Berkeley and her husband lived abroad at her persuasion, near the court of William of Orange
(the future William III of England) at The Hague in the... |
| Reception | Elinor James | Her offence was not only This Being Your Majesty
's Birth-Day (which she had written and printed as well as selling) but any of one of at least eight broadsides this year condemning William
and... |
| Publishing | Anne Halkett | In this year there reached print at Edinburgh, together with three works by AH
, a printed version of her memoirs, radically recast by S. C. (who was probably Simon Couper
, one of... |
Timeline
20 September 1697: The Treaty of Ryswick ended the Nine Years...
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20 September 1697
The Treaty of Ryswick ended the Nine Years War: only nine years of peace followed.
April 1698: Jeremy Collier published his Short View of...
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April 1698
Jeremy Collier
published his Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage, a book in heavy-handed pamphlet style with exaggerated typography.
7 December 1698: Edward Rigby, a naval captain, was prosecuted...
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7 December 1698
Edward Rigby, a naval captain, was prosecuted for sodomy with William Minton, whom he had picked up at a fireworks display and taken to a tavern.
20 February 1702: William III broke his collar-bone when his...
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20 February 1702
William III
broke his collar-bone when his horse stumbled on a mole-hill; this was the ultimate cause of his death the following month.
8 March 1702: King William III died and Queen Anne assumed...
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8 March 1702
King William III
died and Queen Anne
assumed the throne; she was crowned on 23 April, which was Charles II
's coronation day as well as St George's Day.
5 November 1709: Henry Sacheverell preached a notorious sermon...
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5 November 1709
Henry Sacheverell
preached a notorious sermon at St Paul's Cathedral challenging the 1688 settlement of the succession.
1723: Dr Thomas Bray, who had founded the Society...
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1723
Dr Thomas Bray
, who had founded the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
, used a bequest from a Dutch secretary to William III
to found Dr Bray's Associates
, an organization supporting parochial libraries...
Late 1739: There was published, bearing the date of...
Women writers item
Late 1739
There was published, bearing the date of 1740, The Life and Adventures of Mrs. Christian Davies
, commonly call'd Mother Ross. Taken from her own mouth, the story of a woman cross-dressing to be a soldier.
4 November 1789: Richard Price delivered a sermon at the Old...
Building item
4 November 1789
Richard Price
delivered a sermon at the Old Jewry Meeting House, London, to mark the anniversary of the Revolution of 1688 and celebrate the revolutionary spirit of France.
12 August-3 September 1821: The newly-crowned George IV visited Ireland...
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12 August-3 September 1821
The newly-crowned George IV
visited Ireland (the first British monarch to do so since William III
made war there), and was rapturously received in Dublin.
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