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King James II
Standard Name: James II, King
Used Form: Duke of York
Connections
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Wealth and Poverty | Anne Halkett | On his accession to the throne in 1685 James II
granted AH
a pension of a hundred pounds a year, in recognition of her personal contribution to saving his life in 1648. |
Violence | Lady Lucy Herbert | A sectarian motive was assumed. Two page-boys were said to have died in the flames, and the family was lucky to get out alive. Permission to rebuild was granted by James II
in June 1685... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Dorothy Sidney, Countess of Sunderland | Her letters typically discuss the political situation of the time, as well as her thoughts on the activities of courtiers and of her family members. The earliest of them reports on the king's health, the... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Dorothy Sidney, Countess of Sunderland | DSCS
discusses the English court, and her opinions thereof, in detail in her letters to Halifax. The first one printed gives the names of officers posted to fight the Moors at the British fort of... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Polwhele | This is a tribute in search of a patron: it praises James
's exploits in the Third Dutch War. Milling, Jane. “’In the Female Coasts of Fame’: women’s dramatic writing on the public stage, 1669-71”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 7 , No. 2, pp. 267-93. 283 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Maria De Fleury | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elinor James | She boosts the Church of England
, of course, but also urges William not to assume the throne, but to withdraw, limiting his own contribution to bringing pressure to bear on James II
(his father... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Halkett | AH
handles her narrative (which survives only up to the year 1656) with skill. She employs literary reference when the ups and downs of her personal value at court put her in mind of texts... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ephelia | The broadside advises Monmouth
, the Protestant claimant to succeed to the throne, in no uncertain terms to remember his illegitimate birth, re-awaken his loyalty, to scorn the mob, and to realise that the only... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Catharine Macaulay | CM
sought to memorialise the men whose struggles had secured the reputation of England as a nation of liberty at the time of the Civil War, while believing that oppression in England had begun when... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck | MAS
pruned and updated the text (in its original form of a letter more than a hundred pages long addressed to My Reverend Mother on Christmas Eve, 1667—that is, to Agnès Artaud
). Schimmelpenninck felt... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Catharine Macaulay | This volume deals with the reign of James II
, closing in 1689. CM
concluded with a direct appeal to the ingenuous [that is, sincere] and uncorrupted part of my countrymen to condemn tyrants and... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Agnes Strickland | The monarchical attitudes of these bishops who remained loyal to their oaths to James II
were in tune with those of AS
nearly two centuries later. |
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 | Grisell Murray | Based on the Marchmont Papers, this book criticised Fox's take on the reign of James II
. Rose stated that as a close friend of the third Earl of Marchmont
, he felt an obligation... |
Timeline
7 October 1660: News reached the British royal household...
National or international item
7 October 1660
News reached the British royal household of a marriage that was to become dynastically significant: that of the king
's brother (later James II
) with the commoner Anne Hyde
, daughter of Lord Clarendon
.
18 December 1660: The Royal Adventurers (later the Royal African...
National or international item
18 December 1660
The Royal Adventurers (later the Royal African Company
) was founded under the personal patronage of Charles II
and James II
; this represented Britain's active engagement with the slave trade.
1664: Charles II granted land in America to the...
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1664
Charles II
granted land in America to the Duke of York
, which in 1681 was sold to the Quaker William Penn
, and eventually became the Quaker colony of Pennsylvania.
2 March 1667: Dryden's Secret Love, or the Maiden Queen...
Writing climate item
2 March 1667
Dryden
's Secret Love, or the Maiden Queen had its first performance at Drury Lane Theatre
, with Nell Gwyn
in the cast and Samuel Pepys
, Charles II
, and the future James II
in the audience.
12 August 1678: Titus Oates laid his allegations of a Popish...
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12 August 1678
Titus Oates
laid his allegations of a Popish plot against the crown and government of England: this triggered immediate panic and the prolonged Exclusion Crisis, an attempt to bar the Catholic Duke of York
26 May 1679: Charles II prorogued parliament, to prevent...
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26 May 1679
Charles II
prorogued parliament, to prevent its passing an Exclusion Bill to bar his brother James, Duke of York
(as a Catholic), from succeeding to the throne.
28 March 1681: Charles II dissolved a very short-lived parliament...
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28 March 1681
Charles II
dissolved a very short-lived parliament (the second that year), which was, for the third time, about to pass an Exclusion Bill barring his brother James
from the succession.
27 May 1682: Mary of Modena, wife of the future James...
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27 May 1682
22 March 1683: A fire at the racing centre of Newmarket...
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22 March 1683
A fire at the racing centre of Newmarket preserved the lives of Charles II
and his brother
; by leaving early for London they avoided a planned assassination.
6 February 1685: King Charles II died and his brother James...
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6 February 1685
King Charles II
died and his brother James II
(who was also James VII of Scotland) assumed the throne.
15 February 1685: James II went publicly to Mass for the first...
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15 February 1685
James II
went publicly to Mass for the first time since succeeding to the throne.
19 May 1685: The new monarch, James II, summoned his first...
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19 May 1685
The new monarch, James II
, summoned his first parliament for this date.
6 July 1685: The Duke of Monmouth's Rebellion, aimed at...
National or international item
6 July 1685
The Duke of Monmouth
's Rebellion, aimed at getting possession of the throne, ended in defeat at Sedgemoor in Somerset, with much loss of life.
8 July 1685: News reached London of the defeat of Monmouth,...
National or international item
8 July 1685
News reached London of the defeat of Monmouth
, Protestant contender for the throne of his Catholic uncle James II
.
March 1686: James II's General Pardon and Royal Warrant...
National or international item
March 1686
James II
's General Pardon and Royal Warrant released another batch of persecuted Quakers
from prison.
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