King William III

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...

JW called people and monarch to repentance in a fifteen-page pamphlet, The Humble Address of the Widow Whitrowe to King William.

JW approached the king again in The Humble Salutation and Faithful Greeting of the Widow Whitrowe to King William.

JW followed her recent address to King William with To Queen Mary : the Humble Salutation, and Faithful Greeting of the Widow Whitrowe.

JW addressed a New Year message to both the joint monarchs: To King William and Queen Mary , Grace and Peace, The Widow Whitrow's Humble Thanksgiving to the Lord.

In a longer pamphlet entitled The Widow Whiterows Humble Thanksgiving for the King s Safe Return, JW relates parts of her life-story.

JW personally delivered into King William 's hands a detailed political message received from God three days before and printed as a broadside: To the King and Both Houses of Parliament.

One evening SW refused to say Amen to her husband 's prayer for the king : that is, she implicitly declared herself a Jacobite.

EW was a Scotswoman of the lower classes who became a godly, fervent Presbyterian , Covenanter and anti-Episcopalian. She writes that for some years she satisfied my self with the Pharisees Religion, until she...

Early in the eighteenth century, the Covenant, Scotland's Glory above other Nations, was threatened by a malignant, ungodly, Prelatick Party. These men were waiting for the death of the Protestant champion William III and...

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...

Other poems in this volume treat distinctively Irish themes. The Flight of the Wild Geese mourns the loss of Irish soldiers going as mercenaries (the wild geese) to continental armies after William III 's...

In the society that Morgan depicts, the Irish Catholic gentry are mostly absent, scattered in European exile. The peasantry, dirt-poor but generous-hearted, include Tim O'Leary, schoolmaster of a hedge school, scholar and expert in Irish...

Agnes and Elizabeth Strickland (the latter, as usual, not credited on the title page) turned to a more esoteric subject in their The Lives of the Seven Bishops Committed to the Tower in 1688...

SLC took a keen and informed spectator's interest in local and national politics, but whereas her husband and his family were Whigs, she inclined rather towards the Tories. Reading Clarendon 's history of the civil...