King James II

If, as Kathryn King believes, Barker sent the evidence of her miraculous cure in 1730 to the mother superior who was formerly Lady Lucy, she did so as part of a concerted campaign to get...

A warrant went out for the arrest of Lady Elizabeth Hatcher (the former ED ) as a Jacobite: for helping to convey letters between the exiled James II and his supporters in England, in an...

Anne Murray (later AH ) became involved in monarchist plotting, with the spy and double agent Colonel Joseph Bampfield . This led to her engineering the escape from England of the future James II ...

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...

Anne Murray (later AH ) crossed the threshold of national history when she smuggled the young Duke of York (the future James II ), disguised in women's clothes, out of St James's Palace on the...

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 this year there reached print at Edinburgh, together with three works by AH , a printed version of her memoirs, radically recast by S. C. (who was probably Simon Couper , one of...

BB (future autobiographer) wrote and delivered a political letter to James II protesting about the treatment of Quakers .

The publisher, Longman , had advertised this work as in the press in a flyer printed in April 1814 (bound into a copy of Modern Times by Eliza Parsons , 1814). Within a couple of...

Lady Powis , governess to the infant Prince of Wales , brought the baby to the king with Elizabeth Cellier 's Foundling Hospital petition in his hand.

Most of her extant manuscripts are at the British Library and at Magdalen College , Oxford. Just a few which are more widely scattered (one among the family papers of Jacobite diarist Mary Caesar

The Rover brought AB to the notice of the Duke of York . Well received at first, and popular on stage for more than fifty years, it nevertheless showed less durability than the comedies...

Locke spent the latter part of the 1670s in France, and then, for the last couple of years of Charles II 's reign and for the whole of that of James II , lived...

Ancestors bearing the same name as her father had first bought the Blarney Castle in County Cork estate in 1688 (after Donogh McCarthy, fourth Earl of Clancarthy , had forfeited it for supporting James II

During the reign of James II , Elizabeth Berkeley and her husband lived abroad at her persuasion, near the court of William of Orange (the future William III of England) at The Hague in the...