King James II

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

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.

Her poem is Miltonic in style, with frequent echoes of Paradise Lost, although written in couplets. Accepting a designation applied to her by ideological enemies, MDF opens by comparing herself to the biblical Deborah...

At about thirty-eight but giving her age as thirty, the widowed Lady ED married a man of about twenty-two, Henry Hatcher (or Thatcher) of Kirby in Lincolnshire, who was later a military captain and...

A warrant went out for the arrest of Lady Elizabeth Hatcher (the former ED ) as a Jacobite: for helping to convey letters between the exiled James II and his supporters in England, in an...

DSCS 's first surviving letter to her much younger brother Henry Sidney (later Earl of Romney) reported on a serious illness of the king 's. She followed this with political news, including details on the...

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...

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...

Berry suggests that one last, undated letter to Halifax was probably written in early 1681. This letter contains commentary on the political influence the Duke of York might hold, despite earlier information having suggested that...

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...

In organising the Fund she was interested in promoting social cohesion among Quakers as well as relieving hardship.George Fox continued to frequent Swarthmoor, and at the time of the Restoration (May 1660) was...

Following the death of Charles II, when MF had just spoken with him (fruitlessly) about a decade after their previous meeting, she had an interview with James II in February 1685; she later sent an...

Around January 1685 (she says both that she was in her seventieth year and that Charles II was very close to his death) she travelled again to London bearing a paper for the king which...

Anne Kingsmill (later AF ) became a maid of honour to Mary of Modena , wife of the future James II .

AF wrote an elegy, On the Lord Dundee, commemorating John Graham of Claverhouse, who died fighting for James II at the battle of Killiecrankie.