King James II

Standard Name: James II, King

Used Form: Duke of York

Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
Literary Setting	Anna Maria Porter	The story is set shortly before James II 's abdication, after his alarming assault upon our church. Porter, Anna Maria. The Barony. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1830, 3 vols. 3: 554 It encompasses Monmouth 's Rebellion. The action unfolds partly in Cornwall, with some scenes in...
Literary Setting	Ouida	The title piece is set during the Glorious Revolution and begins just before James II is forced from the throne by William of Orange . The story's characters naturally take the romantic side: as Jacobites...
Occupation	Anne Killigrew	AK also became a noted amateur painter. There are records of her portrait, religious, and mythological works; she also produced more than one self-portrait. The present royal collection includes her portrait of James II ....
Occupation	Anne Finch	Anne Kingsmill (later AF ) became a maid of honour to Mary of Modena , wife of the future James II . McGovern, Barbara. Anne Finch and Her Poetry: A Critical Biography. University of Georgia Press, 1992. 20-1
Occupation	Elizabeth Cellier	EC was evidently consulted in her capacity as a midwife by James II on the failure of his wife, Mary of Modena , to bear a child. Cellier said the queen was fertile, and advised...
Occupation	Anne Halkett	The widowed AH began teaching for a living (not girls, but boys of good family) until James II granted her a pension in recognition of her former services. 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. 7
politics	Margaret Fell	Following the death of Charles II, when MF had just spoken with him (fruitlessly) about a decade after their previous meeting, she had an interview with James II in February 1685; she later sent an...
politics	Hester Biddle	By this stage in her life she had been imprisoned fourteen times over a period of fifty years. The Society of Friends gave her permission for her journey. Mack, Phyllis. Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England. University of California Press, 1992. 389 Once abroad, she first visited James II
politics	Elizabeth Cellier	The king promised EC , she said, what she had asked for in print: a Corporation of Midwives and a Cradle Hospital . Cellier, Elizabeth. A Scheme for a Corporation of Midwives. 1687. 7
politics	Anne Finch	He was discharged for lack of evidence seven months later. He remained a Non-Juror: that is, he refused to take the oath of allegiance to the new monarchs, William and Mary, a refusal which would...
politics	Joan Whitrow	Having apparently been a critic of the Stuart regime on moral and religious grounds, JW was disgusted when the Protestant William and Mary failed to institute reform. O Ye Church and People of England! what...
politics	Lady Lucy Herbert	LLH , like her parents, was a Jacobite and an activist in the cause. She looked on James Edward Stuart as James III, rightful king of England and Scotland, and must have been delighted when...
politics	Susanna Wesley	Her timing may have had to do with the death of the former James II on 3 September 1701, though she had apparently been praying for William III during his reign so far. During the...
politics	Susanna Hopton	In the year 1689 SH became a Jacobite. She felt that William and Mary had no right to the English throne, which still belonged in principle to James II . She made herself a strong...
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...

Timeline

4 April 1687

James II 's Abolition of the Test Act (a change which was also called the Declaration of Indulgence) extended freedom of worship without penalty to Catholics and Dissenting sects; but it remained in force only...

2 July 1687

James II dissolved the parliament which was to be his last.

Henning, Basil Duke, editor. The House of Commons, 1660-1690. Secker and Warburg, 1983, 3 vols.

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8 June 1688

The seven bishops (the Archbishop of Canterbury and six others) were imprisoned in the Tower of London for refusal to proclaim and distribute James II 's Declaration for Liberty of Conscience.