King Charles II

Standard Name: Charles II, King
Used Form: Charles the Second

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Family and Intimate relationships Frances, Lady Norton
Frances Freke married George Norton of Abbots Leigh in North Somerset (a house which was famous for having sheltered the disguised fugitive future Charles II in autumn 1651 after the battle of Worcester). The date...
Family and Intimate relationships Lady Lucy Herbert
Lady Powis , mother of two future writers (Lucy and Winifred , then about ten and seven), joined her husband in the Tower of London, on a charge of Roman Catholic plotting against...
Family and Intimate relationships Lady Lucy Herbert
Lucy's father, William Herbert , owned estates in Wales and the Welsh marches, although much of the family's large properties had been forfeited after they fought for the monarchy in the English Civil War...
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 Laetitia Pilkington
LP was proud of her mother's descent from Colonel William Meade (her own great-grandfather), who fought for Charles II in the Civil War.
Pilkington, Laetitia. Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington. Editor Elias, A. C., University of Georgia Press.
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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 Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater
Of the ten children borne by Elizabeth (both as Lady Brackley and as Lady Bridgewater), seven outlived her although only four seem to have lived long enough to reach modern records: John , born on...
Family and Intimate relationships Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater
Lionel Cranfield, third Earl of Middlesex , challenged Lord Bridgewater (who had just been appointed guardian of his niece) to a duel in deliberately insulting language—Billingsgate dialect, Bridgewater called it, from the notoriously...
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...
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
Health Dorothy Sidney, Countess of Sunderland
DSCS suffered a serious attack of ague (fever). To her brother Henry she attributed her recovery to a medicine referred to at the time as the Jesuits' powders , which had also cured Charles II
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.
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
Literary Setting Delarivier Manley
Queen Zarah purports to be translated, not from French but from Italian. In it England is Albigion. The critical preface is in fact a translation of part of Morvan de Bellegarde 's Lettres curieuses...
Literary Setting Sarah Green
It opens in France and England during what was in England the interregnum period, and moves onwards into the reign of Charles II . The heroine writes her story retrospectively in a letter to a...

Timeline

21 May 1662: Charles II married Catherine of Braganza...

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21 May 1662

Charles II married Catherine of Braganza (daughter of the king of Portugal) in two ceremonies: one secret and Catholic, one Anglican.

15 July 1662: The Royal Society was chartered by the king...

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15 July 1662

The Royal Society was chartered by the king from the existing philosophic society centred on Gresham's College .

January 1663: Despite the Act of Uniformity, Charles II...

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January 1663

Despite the Act of Uniformity, Charles II ordered the release of many Dissenters (Quakers and others) from prison.

1664: Charles II granted land in America to the...

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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.

7 December 1666: More than a hundred Covenanters were found...

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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.

2 March 1667: Dryden's Secret Love, or the Maiden Queen...

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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.

24 March 1670: The divorce of Lord Ros or Roos, on grounds...

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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 .

2 May 1670: Charles II signed the charter for the Hudson,...

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2 May 1670

Charles II signed the charter for the Hudson, or Hudson's, Bay Company , giving it trading rights in Rupert's Land.

15 March 1672: Charles II promulgated a Declaration of Indulgence,...

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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.

February 1673: The Third Dutch War broke out; it lasted...

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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.

March 1673: Charles II withdrew the Declaration of Indulgence...

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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 .

12 August 1678: Titus Oates laid his allegations of a Popish...

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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...

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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.

1681-5: Of 217 Catholic estates sequestered during...

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1681-5

Of 217 Catholic estates sequestered during the last four years of Charles II 's reign, over half were worth less than £100.

28 March 1681: Charles II dissolved a very short-lived parliament...

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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.

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