King 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...

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...

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...

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. Once abroad, she first visited James II

The king promised EC , she said, what she had asked for in print: a Corporation of Midwives and a Cradle Hospital .

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...

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

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.

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...

JB left London, following the ousted King James , to settle at his court-in-exile at St-Germain-en-Laye near Paris.

When James II fled from his kingdom at the end of 1688, LLH 's parents accompanied him into France to his court at St Germain. They sent for her at some time over the...

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...