King, Kathryn R., and Jeslyn Medoff. “Jane Barker and Her Life (1652-1732): The Documentary Record”. Eighteenth-Century Life, Vol.
21
, No. 3, pp. 16-38. 22
King James II
Standard Name: James II, King
Used Form: Duke of York
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Residence | Jane Barker | JB
left London, following the ousted King James
, to settle at his court-in-exile at St-Germain-en-Laye near Paris. |
| Friends, Associates | Jane Barker | While there is no evidence that JB
was close to influential members of the court in exile, a number of her mother's relations were well established there. She made literary advances to many members of... |
| Health | Jane Barker | In early 1726 JB
was reported to be dangerously ill. A few years before 1730 (or possibly, depending on a contested manuscript reading, a few years before 1713) she suffered from something she believed to... |
| politics | Jane Barker | If, as Kathryn King
believes, Barker sent the evidence of her miraculous cure in 1730 to the mother superior who was formerly Lady Lucy, she did so as part of a concerted campaign to get... |
| Publishing | Jane Barker | Most of her extant manuscripts are at the British Library
and at Magdalen College
, Oxford. Just a few which are more widely scattered (one among the family papers of Jacobite diarist Mary Caesar |
| 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... |
| Reception | Aphra Behn | The Rover brought AB
to the notice of the Duke of York
. Todd, Janet. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn. Rutgers University Press. 221 |
| Textual Production | Aphra Behn | The end of Charles II
's reign in 1685 drew from AB
three poems of political commentary: A Pindarick on the Death of Our Late Sovereign (the only one by a woman among dozens of... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Aphra Behn | |
| politics | Hester Biddle | By this stage in her life she had been imprisoned fourteen times over a period of fifty years. The Society of Friends
gave her permission for her journey. Mack, Phyllis. Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England. University of California Press. 389 |
| Publishing | Barbara Blaugdone | |
| Literary Setting | Mary Boyle | MB
here recounts the story, set during the final days of James II
's reign, of Mary Savile, a fictional maid of honour toMary of Modena
, James's wife (whose actual maids of honour... |
| 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... |
| politics | Elizabeth Cellier | The king
promised EC
, she said, what she had asked for in print: a Corporation of Midwives and a Cradle Hospital
. Cellier, Elizabeth. A Scheme for a Corporation of Midwives. 7 |
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...
National or international item
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...
National or international item
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...
National or international item
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...
National or international item
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...
National or international item
27 May 1682
22 March 1683: A fire at the racing centre of Newmarket...
National or international item
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...
National or international item
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...
National or international item
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...
National or international item
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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