Fiennes, Celia. The Illustrated Journeys of Celia Fiennes. Editor Morris, Christopher, Macdonald; Webb and Bower.
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King William III
Standard Name: William III, King
Used Form: William of Orange
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| politics | Celia Fiennes | |
| politics | Anne Finch | |
| politics | Anne Finch | He was discharged for lack of evidence seven months later. He remained a Non-Juror: that is, he refused to take the oath of allegiance to the new monarchs, William and Mary, a refusal which would... |
| Textual Features | Sarah Fyge | |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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/. |
| politics | Susanna Hopton | |
| 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... |
| politics | Elinor James | EJ
actively exerted an influence on the course of national affairs. She was a radical traditionalist, monarchist, and Jacobite who was critical of all the Stuart monarchs before Queen Anne
, and a high-flying Anglican... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| Literary Setting | Edna Lyall | The story revolves around Jacobite plots and persecution of Quakers
in the period when Queen Mary II
was Regent for her husband, William
, during his absences abroad. It introduces actual characters like the former... |
| Literary responses | Catharine Macaulay | Walpole
thought CM
's principles sounder and more securely settled than Burke's, while Burke
(coining the term republican Virago) judged her the ablest among his opponents. Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press. 173 Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press. 74 |
| politics | M. Marsin | She was a strong Whig, that is, a supporter of William III
. |
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...
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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...
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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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