King Charles II

As Grisell Baillie 's story makes clear, her father, Sir Patrick Hume, later Earl of Marchmont , Grisell Murray's maternal grandfather, was an important figure in Scotland, a national and religious (Presbyterian) leader. So was...

Lady Harley tried but failed to get Edward elected to parliament at the age of eighteen. Later he held the seat for Hereford. He commanded a troop of horse in the parliamentary army, and was...

Frances Freke married George Norton of Abbots Leigh in North Somerset (a house which was famous for having sheltered the disguised fugitive future Charles II in autumn 1651 after the battle of Worcester). The date...

DSCS had another son, Robert , from this second marriage. This son would become Constable of Dover Castle in Charles II 's reign.

Lady Powis , mother of two future writers (Lucy and Winifred , then about ten and seven), joined her husband in the Tower of London, on a charge of Roman Catholic plotting against...

Of the ten children borne by Elizabeth (both as Lady Brackley and as Lady Bridgewater), seven outlived her although only four seem to have lived long enough to reach modern records: John , born on...

Lionel Cranfield, third Earl of Middlesex , challenged Lord Bridgewater (who had just been appointed guardian of his niece) to a duel in deliberately insulting language—Billingsgate dialect, Bridgewater called it, from the notoriously...

Lucy's father, William Herbert , owned estates in Wales and the Welsh marches, although much of the family's large properties had been forfeited after they fought for the monarchy in the English Civil War...

CCR offered support and concern to Thomas Hog (a minister near Auldearn on the Moray Firth, who ended up as a royal chaplain to King William ) while he was being persecuted for his...

MJ corresponded with Charlotte Lennox and with publisher Ralph Griffiths and his wife Isabella . Her friendship was valued by literary men like Samuel Johnson , Joseph Spence , Thomas Warton , and apparently Bonnell Thornton

DSCS suffered a serious attack of ague (fever). To her brother Henry she attributed her recovery to a medicine referred to at the time as the Jesuits' powders , which had also cured Charles II

The Festival Theatre at Malvern first performed GBS 's Good King Charles 's Golden Days: A History Lesson, a comedy featuring actual historical figures.

This narrative was apparently planned to fit its six illustrations: portraits of imaginary beauties by Edmund Thomas Parris (whose work featured also in Gems of Beauty).

The novel begins with the Lisle family taking up residence at the ill-fated house of Gardenhurst, an estate that had been gambled away by its young heir during the reign of Charles II , and...

In her preface PA claims that but for her publisher's advice to study the market, she would at this stage have chosen to write something more serious and learned, but still, she says, she...