King William III

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

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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...
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...
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 Mary Pix
The tendency of the story is anti-Catholic, but criticism is also levelled against the king 's favourites.
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.
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The next epigraph comes from Burns
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.
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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/.
In it MM writes, God bless King William
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...
Textual Features Sarah Fyge
The volume nicely mixes the personal and political. SF shows daring in expressions of love and of refusal to accept conventional restraints of all kinds. She reprints all four of her poems on Dryden 's...
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.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
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 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.
2: 431-2
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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