King James II

Standard Name: James II, King
Used Form: Duke of York

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Catharine Macaulay
CM sought to memorialise the men whose struggles had secured the reputation of England as a nation of liberty at the time of the Civil War, while believing that oppression in England had begun when...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Catharine Macaulay
This volume deals with the reign of James II , closing in 1689. CM concluded with a direct appeal to the ingenuous [that is, sincere] and uncorrupted part of my countrymen to condemn tyrants and...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elizabeth Polwhele
This is a tribute in search of a patron: it praises James 's exploits in the Third Dutch War.
Milling, Jane. “’In the Female Coasts of Fame’: women’s dramatic writing on the public stage, 1669-71”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
7
, No. 2, 2000, pp. 267-93.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Maria De Fleury
Her poem is Miltonic in style, with frequent echoes of Paradise Lost, although written in couplets. Accepting a designation applied to her by ideological enemies, MDF opens by comparing herself to the biblical Deborah...
Violence Lady Lucy Herbert
A sectarian motive was assumed. Two page-boys were said to have died in the flames, and the family was lucky to get out alive. Permission to rebuild was granted by James II in June 1685...
Wealth and Poverty Anne Halkett
On his accession to the throne in 1685 James II granted AH a pension of a hundred pounds a year, in recognition of her personal contribution to saving his life in 1648.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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