Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago, 1988.
406
King Charles II
Standard Name: Charles II, King
Used Form: Charles the Second
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Teresia Constantia Phillips | Constantia had as godmother the dowager Duchess of Bolton
, who was an illegitimate grand-daughter of Charles II
through the once-notorious Duke of Monmouth. As a child Constantia was a member of the duchess's household... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Catharine Trotter | Her mother, born Sarah Ballenden, was related to three separate Scots noble families. She brought up her daughters at first on an Admiralty pension (discontinued on Charles II
's death, restored by Queen Anne
)... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Catharine Trotter | CT
's father, David Trotter, a naval officer in the service of Charles II
, died of the plague at Scanderoon in Turkey in early 1684, when his daughter Catharine was probably nine. Kelley, Anne. Catharine Trotter: An Early Modern Writer in the Vanguard of Feminism. Ashgate, 2002. 3 and n10 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Sarah Savage | SS
's father, the Rev. Philip Henry
, was an Oxford graduate whose religious views were shaped by Puritans, and who became distinguished as a Nonconformist minister and gifted preacher. He was ordained in the... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Grisell Murray | Lady Grisell or Grizell Hume
, later Baillie, was the daughter of Scottish Covenanter
Sir Patrick Hume (later Earl of Marchmont). Born on Christmas Day in 1665 at Redbraes Castle in Berwickshire, Grisell played... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | Her father, Walter Singer
, a well-to-do wool merchant and a dissenting minister, had been imprisoned at Ilchester for his beliefs under Charles II
(and had met his future wife when she came prison visiting)... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Grisell Murray | As Grisell Baillie
's story makes clear, her father, Sir Patrick Hume, later Earl of Marchmont
, Grisell Murray's maternal grandfather, was an important figure in Scotland, a national and religious (Presbyterian) leader. So was... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Brilliana Lady Harley | Lady Harley tried but failed to get Edward elected to parliament at the age of eighteen. Later he held the seat for Hereford. He commanded a troop of horse in the parliamentary army, and was... |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Jones | MJ
corresponded with Charlotte Lennox
and with publisher Ralph Griffiths
and his wife Isabella
. Her friendship was valued by literary men like Samuel Johnson
, Joseph Spence
, Thomas Warton
, and apparently Bonnell Thornton |
| Friends, Associates | Catharine Colace Ross | CCR
offered support and concern to Thomas Hog
(a minister near Auldearn on the Moray Firth, who ended up as a royal chaplain to King William
) while he was being persecuted for his... |
| Health | Dorothy Sidney Countess of Sunderland | |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Marguerite Gardiner Countess of Blessington | This narrative was apparently planned to fit its six illustrations: portraits of imaginary beauties by Edmund Thomas Parris
(whose work featured also in Gems of Beauty). The novel followed on the heels of Anna Jameson |
| Intertextuality and Influence | George Bernard Shaw | The Festival Theatre
at Malvern first performed GBS
's Good King Charles
's Golden Days: A History Lesson, a comedy featuring actual historical figures. Weintraub, Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 10. Gale Research, 1982. |
| Literary Setting | Isabella Neil Harwood | The second play in this volume, Lord and Lady Russell was met with much less interest than Elfinella. It is a historical drama set in the court of King Charles II
. The despicable... |
| Literary Setting | Virginia Woolf | The protagonist of Orlando notoriously begins as a sixteen-year-old romantic boy in the attic of a palatial great house in the late sixteenth century, practising sword-thrusts at the shrunken head of a Moor killed by... |
Timeline
21 May 1662: Charles II married Catherine of Braganza...
National or international item
21 May 1662
Charles II
married Catherine of Braganza
(daughter of the king of Portugal) in two ceremonies: one secret and Catholic, one Anglican.
Bryant, Arthur. King Charles II. Longmans, Green, 1931.
144-52
Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press, 1992.
141
Pagden, Anthony. “Oak in a Flowerpot”. London Review of Books, 14 Nov. 2002, pp. 9-10.
9
15 July 1662: The Royal Society was chartered by the king...
Building item
15 July 1662
The Royal Society
was chartered by the king
from the existing philosophic society centred on Gresham's College
.
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Clarendon Press, 1955, 6 vols.
3: 266-7, 267n6
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Oxford University Press, 1959.
443
January 1663: Despite the Act of Uniformity, Charles II...
National or international item
January 1663
Despite the Act of Uniformity, Charles II
ordered the release of many Dissenters (Quakers and others) from prison.
Bryant, Arthur. King Charles II. Longmans, Green, 1931.
155
1664: Charles II granted land in America to the...
National or international item
1664
Charles II
granted land in America to the Duke of York
, which in 1681 was sold to the Quaker William Penn
, and eventually became the Quaker colony of Pennsylvania.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
940
7 December 1666: More than a hundred Covenanters were found...
National or international item
7 December 1666
More than a hundred Covenanters
were found guilty of rebellion and sentenced to be hanged with particular brutality from the Mercat Cross in Edinburgh.
The Covenanters: The Fifty Years Struggle 1638-1688. http://www.sorbie.net/covenanters.htm.
2 March 1667: Dryden's Secret Love, or the Maiden Queen...
Writing climate item
2 March 1667
Dryden
's Secret Love, or the Maiden Queen had its first performance at Drury Lane Theatre
, with Nell Gwyn
in the cast and Samuel Pepys
, Charles II
, and the future James II
in the audience.
Pepys, Samuel. Diary. Editor Wheatley, Henry B., G. Bell and Sons, 1952, 8 vols.
6: 192-3
24 March 1670: The divorce of Lord Ros or Roos, on grounds...
Building item
24 March 1670
The divorce of Lord Ros
or Roos, on grounds of his wife's adultery, passed the House of Lords
: the first such occasion since Henry VIII
, said John Evelyn
.
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Oxford University Press, 1959.
538
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Clarendon Press, 1955, 6 vols.
3: 545-6 and n1
Stone, Lawrence. Road to Divorce: England 1530-1987. Oxford University Press, 1990.
309
2 May 1670: Charles II signed the charter for the Hudson,...
National or international item
2 May 1670
Charles II
signed the charter for the Hudson, or Hudson's, Bay Company
, giving it trading rights in Rupert's Land.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
618
Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. 3rd revised, Simon and Schuster, 1991.
307
15 March 1672: Charles II promulgated a Declaration of Indulgence,...
National or international item
15 March 1672
Charles II
promulgated a Declaration of Indulgence, repealing all penal laws in force against nonconformist
s or recusants
in England. This was, however, withdrawn after a year.
“The Declaration of Indulgence, 1672”. Humanities Web: History.
February 1673: The Third Dutch War broke out; it lasted...
National or international item
February 1673
The Third Dutch War broke out; it lasted until the following year, to be ended partly by the unwillingness of the parliament to provide Charles II
with further funds.
Todd, Janet. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn. Rutgers University Press, 1997.
165
March 1673: Charles II withdrew the Declaration of Indulgence...
National or international item
March 1673
Charles II
withdrew the Declaration of Indulgence promulgated one year earlier, which had offered a limited degree of freedom of worship to both Dissenters
and Roman Catholics
.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under John Bunyan
12 August 1678: Titus Oates laid his allegations of a Popish...
National or international item
12 August 1678
Titus Oates
laid his allegations of a Popish plot against the crown and government of England: this triggered immediate panic and the prolonged Exclusion Crisis, an attempt to bar the Catholic Duke of York
26 May 1679: Charles II prorogued parliament, to prevent...
National or international item
26 May 1679
Charles II
prorogued parliament, to prevent its passing an Exclusion Bill to bar his brother James, Duke of York
(as a Catholic), from succeeding to the throne.
Bryant, Arthur. King Charles II. Longmans, Green, 1931.
287
Henning, Basil Duke, editor. The House of Commons, 1660-1690. Secker and Warburg, 1983, 3 vols.
1: 86
1681-5: Of 217 Catholic estates sequestered during...
Building item
1681-5
Of 217 Catholic estates sequestered during the last four years of Charles II
's reign, over half were worth less than £100.
Rowlands, Marie B. English Catholics of Parish and Town, 1558-1778. Catholic Record Society, 1999.
68
28 March 1681: Charles II dissolved a very short-lived parliament...
National or international item
28 March 1681
Charles II
dissolved a very short-lived parliament (the second that year), which was, for the third time, about to pass an Exclusion Bill barring his brother James
from the succession.
Bryant, Arthur. King Charles II. Longmans, Green, 1931.
287
Henning, Basil Duke, editor. The House of Commons, 1660-1690. Secker and Warburg, 1983, 3 vols.
1: 86
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