King Charles II

MF dated her Letter 6 June. On 20 June, says its colophon, Elizabeth Stubbs delivered a printed copy into the king 's hands.

Around January 1685 (she says both that she was in her seventieth year and that Charles II was very close to his death) she travelled again to London bearing a paper for the king which...

ES personally placed in the king 's hands a one-paragraph testimony beginning This is unto thee, O King. It was apparently her first venture into writing for print.

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...

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

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...

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...