King Charles II

The publisher, Longman , had advertised this work as in the press in a flyer printed in April 1814 (bound into a copy of Modern Times by Eliza Parsons , 1814). Within a couple of...

The initial letter H (Hail Mighty Prince!) in the 1679 reprint is rendered by a woodcut ornament or factotum with portraits of two crowned figures, one of each sex, with the royal rose...

A series of articles by ABJ on late seventeenth-century court women appeared in the New Monthly Magazine; these were later published in book form as The Beauties of the Court of King Charles the Second.

While Dorothy, Countess of Sunderland , has been known historically as the Sacharissa of Edmund Waller 's poetry, she was also a respected and memorable letter writer. Most of her surviving letters date from her...

EJ intervened in the affair of Dissenting Minister Thomas Rosewell ; she says that courtiers seeking a pardon for Rosewell came to her and begged her to go to the king .

Charles II signed an Act of Free and General Pardon, Indemnity and Oblivion—which also listed those unpardoned, and therefore condemned to death. JM 's name did not appear; he therefore ranked as pardoned.

LRR 's second husband (who became William, Lord Russell , in 1678 by the death of his elder brother) became more and more active in opposition to Charles II . From this time LRR was...

In Edinburgh she met the future Charles II and other monarchist leaders.

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...

On the Restoration of Charles IIJM (who had unmistakably written to blacken the reputation of Charles I as a ruler, as well as against tyrants, that is unjust rulers, in general) felt himself quite...

MF , on her first visit to London, presented the earliest formal Quaker peace testimony to Charles II , whom she went on to visit several times more.

In this month and again in June, EC was acquitted on two charges of plotting to kill the king and overthrow the monarchy and church.

EC was to perform the semi-illicit task of distributing charitable donations which had been gathered for poor Catholics in prison. She also compiled a dossier, with names of witnesses, of the Tyrannical Barbarisme inflicted...

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...

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...