King William III

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...

By this stage in her life she had been imprisoned fourteen times over a period of fifty years. The Society of Friends gave her permission for her journey. Once abroad, she first visited James II

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

William and Mary vindicated the memory of LRR 's husband by reversing the attainder on him, six years after he was executed.

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...

She was a strong Whig, that is, a supporter of William III .

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 politics CF was an ardent Whig: King William III was her hero.

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...