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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. 87 |
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 | 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 | 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. 128 and n4 |
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 | 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 | 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. 138-9 |
politics | John Milton | 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. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
politics | Lady Rachel Russell | 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... |
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, pp. 3-7. 6 |
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 | |
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. 136-7 Mack, Phyllis. Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England. University of California Press. 220 |
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... |
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