King James II

The king promised EC , she said, what she had asked for in print: a Corporation of Midwives and a Cradle Hospital .

Having apparently been a critic of the Stuart regime on moral and religious grounds, JW was disgusted when the Protestant William and Mary failed to institute reform. O Ye Church and People of England! what...

Her timing may have had to do with the death of the former James II on 3 September 1701, though she had apparently been praying for William III during his reign so far. During the...

LLH , like her parents, was a Jacobite and an activist in the cause. She looked on James Edward Stuart as James III, rightful king of England and Scotland, and must have been delighted when...

In 1685, perhaps in connection with the death of Charles II and the succession of the openly Catholic James II , Anthony Walkersuffered some form of persecution for ten days and seems to have...

In the year 1689 SH became a Jacobite. She felt that William and Mary had no right to the English throne, which still belonged in principle to James II . She made herself a strong...

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

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...

BB (future autobiographer) wrote and delivered a political letter to James II protesting about the treatment of Quakers .

The publisher, Longman , had advertised this work as in the press in a flyer printed in April 1814 (bound into a copy of Modern Times by Eliza Parsons , 1814). Within a couple of...

Lady Powis , governess to the infant Prince of Wales , brought the baby to the king with Elizabeth Cellier 's Foundling Hospital petition in his hand.

The Rover brought AB to the notice of the Duke of York . Well received at first, and popular on stage for more than fifty years, it nevertheless showed less durability than the comedies...

Locke spent the latter part of the 1670s in France, and then, for the last couple of years of Charles II 's reign and for the whole of that of James II , lived...

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

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...