Download or read book The Manuscripts of His Grace the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry 1682 1686 written by Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The manuscripts consists of charters and other documents of the Douglas family; papers of the first Duke of Queensberry as commissioner to the Pariliament of Scotland 1685; letters to him from James II, John Graham of Claverhouse, the third Duke of Hamilton, the fifth Earl of Moray, and the first Earl of Melfort.
Download or read book The Manuscripts of His Grace the Duke of Portland written by Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 1 is a calendar of twenty-two volumes of the collection of state papers, 1628-1660, formed by Dr. John Nalson, canon of Ely; v.3-10 are calendars of the Harley manuscripts, mainly private and official papers and letters of Robert Harley, 1st earl of Oxford; v. 7 is a calendar of the letters written from 1710 to 1720 to Edward Harley, 2d earl of Oxford, by Dr. William Stratford, canon of Christ's Church, Oxford.
Download or read book The Manuscripts of His Grace the Duke of Portland Preserved at Welbeck Abbey Further Harley mss 1597 1714 written by Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Manuscripts of His Grace the Duke of Rutland written by Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Manuscripts of His Grace the Duke of Portland Preserved at Welbeck Abbey Letters from William Stratford Canon of Christ Church Oxford to the 2nd Earl of Oxford 1710 29 written by Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Manuscripts of His Grace the Duke of Rutland Letters and papers 1440 1797 v 3 mainly correspondence of the fourth Duke of Rutland v 4 Charters cartularies c Letters and papers supplementary Extracts from household accounts written by Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Last Royal Rebel written by Anna Keay and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The absorbing tale of how this legendary rogue became the champion of parliamentary monarchy and changed the course of English history. At first light on July 6, 1685, the last battle ever fought on English soil was almost over. On one side of the watery pasture at Sedgemoor was the dashing thirty-six-year-old Duke of Monmouth, the charismatic son of Charles II, adored by the people. A reformer, a romantic, and a Protestant, he was fighting the army he had once commanded, in opposition to his uncle, King James II. Yet even before he launched his attack, Monmouth knew he would die. Born in the backstreets of Rotterdam in the year his grandfather Charles I was executed, Monmouth was the child of a turbulent age. His mother, the first of Charles II's famous liaisons, played courtesan to the band of raw and restless young royalists forced abroad by the changing political current. Conceived during a revolution and born into a republic, Monmouth, by the time he was twelve, was the sensation of the most licentious and libertine court in Europe. Adored by the king and drenched in honors, he became the greatest rake and reprobate of the age. On his path to becoming "the last royal rebel," Monmouth consorted with a spectacular list of contemporaries: Louis XIV was his mentor, William of Orange his confidant, Nell Gwyn his friend, the future Duke of Marlborough his pupil, D'Artagnan his lieutenant, John Dryden his censor, and John Locke his comrade. Anna Keay expertly chronicles Monmouth's life and offers splendid insight into this crucial and dramatic period in English history.
Download or read book Catalogue of the Books Manuscripts Comprising the Library of the Late Sir John T Gilbert written by Dublin Public Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 1020 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Restoration Scotland 1660 1690 written by Clare Jackson and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amidst current interest in Scottish political and parliamentary history before 1707, this book emphasises the dynamic and characteristic cosmopolitanism of Restoration intellectual culture as revealed from a range of national, British and Continental perspectives."--BOOK JACKET.
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Download or read book Lady Rachel Russell written by Lois G. Schwoerer and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1987. Lady Rachel Russell (1637–1723) was regarded as "one of the best women" by many of the most powerful people of her time. Wife of Lord William Russell, the prominent Whig opponent of King Charles II who was executed for treason in 1683, Lady Russell emerged as a political figure in her own right during the Glorious Revolution and throughout her forty-year widowhood. Award-winning historian Lois G. Schwoerer has written a biography that illuminates both the political life and the lives of women in late Stuart England. Lady Russell's interest in politics and religion blossomed during her marriage to Lord Russell and after his death: "as William became a Whig martyr, Rachel became a Whig saint." Her wealth, contacts, and role as her husband's surrogate gave her considerable influence to intercede in high government appointments, lend support in elections, and exchange favors with her friend Mary of Orange. In her domestic life she similarly took steps usually reserved to men, managing large estates in London and Hampshire and negotiating favorable marriage contracts for each of her three children. Although Lady Russell was unusual for her time, she was by no means unique. Other notable women shared her concerns and traits, although to differing degrees and effects. Schwoerer suggests that the horizons of women's lives in the seventeenth century may have extended farther than is often supposed.
Download or read book Matthew Prior a Study of His Public Career and Correspondence written by Leopold George Wickham Legg and published by Octagon Press, Limited. This book was released on 1921 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matthew Prior (1664-1721) was a minor poet and diplomat under King William III and subsequently Queen Anne. As an envoy to the Netherlands and France and negotiator of the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 he had a ringside seat at the European power struggles of his time, while at the same time forging a literary career by publishing poetry and angling for the post of Poet Laureate. Prior's surviving correspondence to his patrons and paymasters is a uniquely witty record of diplomatic life. The first full-length biography of Prior, this book was first published in 1921. Its author, Leopold George Wickham Legg, was an editor of the Dictionary of National Biography. The appendixes include detailed information about Prior's family background and transcriptions of some of his surviving letters and a diary from 1712.--
Download or read book Luxury and Power written by Helen Jacobsen and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2012 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the material world of English ambassadors at the end of the 17th century, illustrating the way in which architecture and the arts played an important role in diplomatic life. 'Luxury and Power' is an important contribution to the cultural history of Baroque England.
