King Charles II

Having in a sense revisited the Mary, Queen of Scots story here, she revisited Cromwell in the same ghostly manner in King Charles II, published in early September 1978 (written, she said, therapeutically while...

While working on this book (as once before while working on Charles II ), AF found that a helpful exercise in optical research was to pack herself physically into priest-holes, the surviving, tiny, secret hiding...

During the hot summer of 1976, she says, she was bogged down in her work on a biography of Charles II , so she turned aside and wrote this story in six weeks. It was...

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...

Anne Kingsmill (later AF ) is now suspected to have written the libretto for John Blow 's masque Venus and Adonis, composed during the reign of Charles II and now sometimes called the first...

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...

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.

MF addressed the restored monarch boldly and directly in a number of works; she was the first to explain to him the non-violent nature of Quakerism .

MF printed her Letter sent to the King (together with a Paper written unto the Magistrates in 1664, which was then printed, and should have been Dispersed but was Prevented by Wicked Hands).

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 summer 1663 MF made a thousand-mile journey around the west (from Bristol through Somerset, Devon, and Dorset, then north and through Yorkshire, Northumberland, and Westmorland); five years later...

MF says that she personally travelled two hundred miles to deliver into the king 's own hand one of her Restoration tracts, A Declaration and an Information from us the People of God called Quakers

The mysterious poet Ephelia first reached public notice when she produced (besides an anonymous verse eulogy addressed to Charles II on the Popish Plot) a play, The Pair-Royal of Coxcombs, from which only...

Roger L'Estrange , recently appointed Royal Licenser, approved the 2-column broadside eulogy A Poem to His Sacred Majesty , on the Plot, which was printed as Written by a Gentlewoman: that is, by Ephelia .