King James II

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

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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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Ephelia
The broadside advises Monmouth , the Protestant claimant to succeed to the throne, in no uncertain terms to remember his illegitimate birth, re-awaken his loyalty, to scorn the mob, and to realise that the only...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Dorothy Sidney Countess of Sunderland
Her letters typically discuss the political situation of the time, as well as her thoughts on the activities of courtiers and of her family members. The earliest of them reports on the king's health, the...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Dorothy Sidney Countess of Sunderland
DSCS discusses the English court, and her opinions thereof, in detail in her letters to Halifax. The first one printed gives the names of officers posted to fight the Moors at the British fort of...
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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