King James II

EJ actively exerted an influence on the course of national affairs. She was a radical traditionalist, monarchist, and Jacobite who was critical of all the Stuart monarchs before Queen Anne , and a high-flying Anglican...

LH 's eldest brother, named Sir Allen Apsley like their father, was born in 1616 and died in 1683. Brought up a Puritan, he shifted his allegiance during the Interregnum towards the Stuart monarchy; after...

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...

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...

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...

When James II fled from his kingdom at the end of 1688, LLH 's parents accompanied him into France to his court at St Germain. They sent for her at some time over 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 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...

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...

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...