King William III

MF composed one of the last of her writings included in her collected works: To King William (personally delivered to the king by Susan Ingram ); the others were To Edmund Waller, and An...

After James II had fled the country in 1688, AB received a flattering invitation from Gilbert Burnet (who in 1682 had tried to divide her from Anne Wharton on moral grounds) to welcome the new...

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...

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.

The other novels in the series are The Three Crowns (1965), about William of Orange ; The Haunted Sisters (1966), about Mary , who marries William and reigns jointly with him in England, and Anne

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

He had been a Gentleman of the Bedchamber to William III , and at the time of his death was one of the Commissioners for the Union of Scotland with England.

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...

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 this remarkably self-assured letter SH takes a challenging, uncompromising tone. She urges Geers to leave the mainstream (schismatic) Anglican Church , now it has vowed loyalty to William and Mary , and to enter...

It gathered together published and unpublished work (some written at boarding-school) both religious and secular: hymns, epistles, odes, pastorals (including an imitation of Anne Killigrew and an elegy for Queen Mary ), praise of King William

Most of the remaining Powis family estates, valued at £10,000 a year, were re-assigned to Whigs by William III after 1688. It took LLH 's relations years of struggle to recoup some of them.

This SB , whom her editors believe not to be the writer, received a pension from the British crown under William III , but it ended on the king's death, and she later experienced debtors'...