King Charles II

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

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Connections Author name Excerpt
politics Anne Halkett
In Edinburgh she met the future Charles II and other monarchist leaders.
Halkett, Anne, and Ann, Lady Fanshawe. “Note on the Text; A Chronology of Anne, Lady Halkett”. The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett and Ann, Lady Fanshawe, edited by John Loftis, Clarendon Press, 1979, pp. 3-7.
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politics Elinor James
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...
politics John Milton
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...
politics John Dryden
By the time this poem saw print, the inadequacy of the Cromwell dynasty was becoming apparent, and Dryden's next important poem hailed the return of Charles II . It is hardly fair to call him...
politics Hester Biddle
George Fox later reported meeting HB in the Strand in London in about 1657, at a time when Cromwell was persecuting Quakers . She told him of her plan to seek out the future Charles II
politics Margaret Fell
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.
Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan, 1994.
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Mack, Phyllis. Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England. University of California Press, 1992.
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politics Elizabeth Hooton
EH went to Whitehall Palace in London and argued with the king .
Mack, Phyllis. Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England. University of California Press, 1992.
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politics Elizabeth Cellier
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.
Cellier, Elizabeth. Malice Defeated and The Matchless Rogue. Editor Gardiner, Anne Barbeau, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, 1988.
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politics Elizabeth Walker
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...
politics Elizabeth Cellier
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
Cellier, Elizabeth. Malice Defeated and The Matchless Rogue. Editor Gardiner, Anne Barbeau, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, 1988.
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politics Margaret Fell
In organising the Fund she was interested in promoting social cohesion among Quakers as well as relieving hardship.
Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan, 1994.
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George Fox continued to frequent Swarthmoor, and at the time of the Restoration (May 1660) was...
politics Elizabeth Cellier
The double agent Willoughby (otherwise Thomas Dangerfield ) had concealed the evidence in order to incriminate her. Interrogated in Newgate PrisonNewgate Prison, EC proved bold and disrespectful of authority. She was, she said, not the...
politics Elinor James
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 .
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
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Author summary Dorothy Sidney Countess of Sunderland
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...
Publishing Margaret Fell
MF dated her Letter 6 June.
Fell, Margaret. A Brief Collection of Remarkable Passages. J. Sowle, 1710.
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On 20 June, says its colophon, Elizabeth Stubbs delivered a printed copy into the king 's hands.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Kunze gives its title as Epistle to Charles II, August 1666.
Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan, 1994.
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