King James II

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...

The fall of the Sultan Ibrahim is may suggest that of James II , but he is deposed mainly for sexual depravity: he likes virgins, and his wicked mistress, Sheker Para, is eager to keep...

James's strong admonitory style has much in common with that of religious prophets. She is equally ready to cross swords with Quakers and Dissenters on the one hand and Catholics on the other, to venerate...

Berry suggests that one last, undated letter to Halifax was probably written in early 1681. This letter contains commentary on the political influence the Duke of York might hold, despite earlier information having suggested that...

This novel is set in France, England, and Ireland. The action occurs in the seventeenth century as a Huguenot girl escapes oppression in France by fleeing to England and then Ireland...

In the play Lord Russell is first seen as he hears the news that the King has dissolved the parliament: he has Quite broken with his people, and to govern / Must needs oppress them...

In the last decade of her life, JP published another twelve historical novels under this name: a thirteenth appeared in the year of her death, 1993. Some of these novels revisit ground or people covered...

Dundee began his distinguished military career as a scourge of the Covenanters . It was cut short at the battle of Killiecrankie where he was championing James II . His early death made him indelibly...

DSCS 's first surviving letter to her much younger brother Henry Sidney (later Earl of Romney) reported on a serious illness of the king 's. She followed this with political news, including details on the...

EJ responded to published comment on James II 's Declaration of Indulgence with Mrs. James's Vindication of the Church of England.

The end of Charles II 's reign in 1685 drew from AB three poems of political commentary: A Pindarick on the Death of Our Late Sovereign (the only one by a woman among dozens of...

EJ began to address James II probably early in his reign, in Most Dear Soveraign, I Cannot but Love and Admire You.

After James II had fled the country in 1688, AB received a flattering invitation from Gilbert Burnet (who in 1682 had tried to divide her from Anne Wharton on moral grounds) to welcome the new...

Around January 1685 (she says both that she was in her seventieth year and that Charles II was very close to his death) she travelled again to London bearing a paper for the king which...