King James II

AF lamented the death of the former James II in an elegy published as By a lady and only recently identified as hers.

AF marked the death of Mary of Modena (widow of James II ), her former employer, with an elegy rntitled On the Death of the Queen.

She was born in the English upper class and baptised into the Anglican church. A monarchist by family tradition, she developed a Jacobite identity after James II was ousted from his throne.

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...

The widowed AH began teaching for a living (not girls, but boys of good family) until James II granted her a pension in recognition of her former services.

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.

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...

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...

Anne Murray (later AH ) became involved in monarchist plotting, with the spy and double agent Colonel Joseph Bampfield . This led to her engineering the escape from England of the future James II ...

Anne Murray (later AH ) crossed the threshold of national history when she smuggled the young Duke of York (the future James II ), disguised in women's clothes, out of St James's Palace on the...

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...

In the play Lord Russell is first seen as he hears the news that the King has dissolved the parliament: he has Quite broken with his people, and to govern / Must needs oppress them...

Her family's titles, wealth, elite status, and remarkable record of high ability were somewhat offset by the RomanCatholic faith which excluded them from some of the civil rights and privileges possessed by other English or...

This was the outcome of the Meal Tub Plot, so called after the container in Elizabeth Cellier 's kitchen where evidence was planted. Lady Powis was then granted bail, and the charges against her...

James II rewarded him with the title of marquess (in March 1687) and gave him various official positions (with a dispensation from the Test Act which normally barred Catholics from holding them). Among James's ideologically...