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James II and VII
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Portrait by Sir Peter Lely
King of England, Scotland, and Ireland
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Reign6 February 1685 – 23 December 1688
Coronation23 April 1685
PredecessorCharles II
SuccessorsWilliam III & II and Mary II

Born14 October 1633
(N.S.: 24 October 1633)
St James's Palace, London, England
Died16 September 1701 (aged 67)[a] (N.S.)
Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France
BurialChurch of the English Benedictines, Paris, France[1][b]
SpouseAnne Hyde

(m. 1660; died 1671)
Mary of Modena

(m. 1673)
Issue
more...Charles, Duke of Cambridge
Mary II, Queen of England
James, Duke of Cambridge
Anne, Queen of Great Britain
Charles, Duke of Kendal
Edgar, Duke of Cambridge
Isabel Stuart
Charles, Duke of Cambridge
James Francis Edward Stuart
Louisa Maria Stuart
⦁Illegitimate:
Henrietta FitzJames
James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick
Henry FitzJames
Catherine Sheffield, Duchess of Buckingham and Normanby
HouseStuart
FatherCharles I of England
MotherHenrietta Maria of France
ReligionAnglicanism (1633–1668)
Catholicism (1668–1701)
SignatureImage
James II and VII (14 October 1633O.S. – 16 September 1701[a]) was King of England and King of Ireland as James II, and King of Scotland as James VII[4] from the death of his elder brother, Charles II, on 6 February 1685. He was deposed in the Glorious Revolution of 1688. He was the last Catholic monarch of England, Scotland, and Ireland. His reign is now remembered primarily for struggles over religious tolerance, but it also involved struggles over the principles of absolutism and the divine right of kings. His deposition ended a century of political and civil strife in England by confirming the primacy of the English Parliament over the Crown.[5]
James inherited the thrones of England, Ireland, and Scotland from his brother with widespread support in all three countries, largely because the principles of eligibility based on divine right and birth were widely accepted.[6] Tolerance of his personal Catholicism did not extend to tolerance of Catholicism in general, and the English and Scottish Parliaments refused to pass his measures. When James attempted to impose them by decree, this was met with opposition; some academics have however argued that it was a political principle, rather than a religious one, that ultimately led to his removal.[7]
In June 1688, two events turned dissent into a crisis; the first, on 10 June, was the birth of James's son and heir James Francis Edward, which raised the prospect of initiating a Roman Catholic dynasty and excluding his Anglican daughter Mary and her Protestant husband William III of Orange. The second was the prosecution of the Seven Bishops for seditious libel; this was viewed as an assault on the Church of England and their acquittal on 30 June destroyed his political authority in England. The anti-Catholic riots in England and Scotland that ensued led to a general feeling that only his removal from the throne could prevent a civil war.[8]
Leading members of the English political class invited William of Orange to assume the English throne; after he landed in Brixham on 5 November 1688, James's army deserted, and he went into exile in France on 23 December. In February 1689, a special Convention Parliament held that the king had "vacated" the English throne and installed William and Mary as joint monarchs, thereby establishing the principle that sovereignty derived from Parliament, not birth. James landed in Ireland on 14 March 1689 in an attempt to recover his kingdoms but, despite a simultaneous rising in Scotland, in April a Scottish Convention followed that of England, both finding that James had "forfeited" the throne and offered it to William and Mary. After his defeat at the Battle of the Boyne in July 1690, James returned to France, where he spent the rest of his life in exile at Saint-Germain, protected by Louis XIV. His opponents often portrayed him as an absolutist tyrant. By contrast, beginning in the 20th century, some historians praised him for advocating religious tolerance. More recent scholarship has tended to take a middle ground between these views.

Contents
1Early life
1.1Birth
1.2Wars of the Three Kingdoms
1.3Exile in France
2Restoration
2.1First marriage
2.2Military and political offices
2.3Conversion to Roman Catholicism and second marriage
2.4Exclusion Crisis
2.5Return to favour
3Reign
3.1Accession to the throne
3.2Two rebellions
3.3Religious liberty and dispensing power
3.4Deposition and the Glorious Revolution
4Attempt to regain the throne
4.1War in Ireland
4.2Return to exile, death, and legacy
5Later Hanover succession
6Subsequent uprisings and pretenders
7Historiography
8Titles, styles, honours, and arms
8.1Titles and styles
8.2Honours
8.3Arms
9Family tree
10Issue
10.1Legitimate issue
10.2Illegitimate issue
11Notes
12Sources
13References
14Further reading
15External links
Early life[edit]
Birth[edit]
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James with his father, Charles I, by Sir Peter Lely, 1647
James, the second surviving son of King Charles I and his wife, Henrietta Maria of France, was born at St James's Palace in London on 14 October 1633.[9] Later that same year, he was baptized by William Laud, the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury.[10] He was educated by private tutors, along with his older brother, the future King Charles II, and the two sons of the Duke of Buckingham, George and Francis Villiers.[11] At the age of three, James was appointed Lord High Admiral; the position was initially honorary, but became a substantive office after the Restoration, when James was an adult.[12][13]
He was designated Duke of York at birth,[14] invested with the Order of the Garter in 1642,[15] and formally created Duke of York in January 1644.[10][14]
Wars of the Three Kingdoms[edit]
In August 1642, long-running political disputes between Charles I and his opponents in Parliament led to the First English Civil War; James and his brother Charles were present at the Battle of Edgehill in October and narrowly escaped capture by Parliamentarian cavalry.[16] He spent most of the next four years in the Royalist war-time capital of Oxford,[17][16] where he was made a Master of Arts by the University on 1 November 1642 and served as colonel of a volunteer regiment of foot.[18] Following its surrender in June 1646, James was taken to London and held with his younger siblings Henry, Elizabeth and Henrietta in St James's Palace.[19]
Frustrated by their inability to agree terms with Charles I and with his brother Charles out of reach in France, Parliament considered making James king. As a result, he was ordered by his father to escape; with the help of Joseph Bampfield, in April 1648 he successfully evaded his guards and crossed the North Sea to The Hague.[20] Following their victory in the 1648 Second English Civil War, Parliament ordered the Execution of Charles I in January 1649.[21] The Covenanter regime proclaimed Charles II king of Scotland, and after lengthy negotiations agreed to provide troops to restore him to the English throne; the invasion ended in defeat at Worcester in September 1651. Although Charles managed to escape capture and return to the exiled court in Paris, the Royalist cause appeared hopeless.[22]
Exile in France[edit]
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Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Viscount of Turenne, James's commander in France
Like his brother, James sought refuge in France, serving in the French army under Turenne against the Fronde, and later against their Spanish allies.[23] In the French army James had his first true experience of battle where, according to one observer, he "ventures himself and chargeth gallantly where anything is to be done".[23] Turenne's favour led to James being given command of a captured Irish regiment in December 1652, and being appointed Lieutenant-General in 1654.[24]
In the meantime, Charles was attempting to reclaim his throne, but France, although hosting the exiles, had allied itself with Oliver Cromwell. In 1656, Charles turned instead to Spain – an enemy of France – for support, and an alliance was made. In consequence, James was expelled from France and forced to leave Turenne's army.[25] James quarrelled with his brother over the diplomatic choice of Spain over France. Exiled and poor, there was little that either Charles or James could do about the wider political situation, and James ultimately travelled to Bruges and (along with his younger brother, Henry) joined the Spanish army under the Prince of Condé in Flanders, where he was given command as Captain-General of six regiments of British volunteers[24] and fought against his former French comrades at the Battle of the Dunes.[26]
During his service in the Spanish army, James became friendly with two Irish Catholic brothers in the Royalist entourage, Peter and Richard Talbot, and became somewhat estranged from his brother's Anglican advisers.[27] In 1659, the French and Spanish made peace. James, doubtful of his brother's chances of regaining the throne, considered taking a Spanish offer to be an admiral in their navy.[28] Ultimately, he declined the position; by the next year the situation in England had changed, and Charles II was proclaimed King.[29]
Restoration[edit]
First marriage[edit]
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James and Anne Hyde in the 1660s, by Sir Peter Lely
After the collapse of the Commonwealth in 1660, Charles II was restored to the English throne. Although James was the heir presumptive, it seemed unlikely that he would inherit the Crown, as Charles was still a young man capable of fathering children.[30] On 31 December 1660, following his brother's restoration, James was created Duke of Albany in Scotland, to go along with his English title, Duke of York.[31] Upon his return to England, James prompted an immediate controversy by announcing his engagement to Anne Hyde, the daughter of Charles's chief minister, Edward Hyde.[32]
In 1659, while trying to seduce her, James promised he would marry Anne.[33] Anne became pregnant in 1660, but following the Restoration and James's return to power, no one at the royal court expected a prince to marry a commoner, no matter what he had pledged beforehand.[34] Although nearly everyone, including Anne's father, urged the two not to marry, the couple married secretly, then went through an official marriage ceremony on 3 September 1660 in London.[34]
Their first child, Charles, was born less than two months later, but died in infancy, as did five further sons and daughters.[34] Only two daughters survived: Mary (born 30 April 1662) and Anne (born 6 February 1665).[35] Samuel Pepys wrote that James was fond of his children and his role as a father, and played with them "like an ordinary private father of a child", a contrast to the distant parenting common with royalty at the time.[36][37]
James's wife was devoted to him and influenced many of his decisions.[38] Even so, he kept mistresses, including Arabella Churchill and Catherine Sedley, and was reputed to be "the most unguarded ogler of his time".[37] Samuel Pepys recorded in his diary that James "did eye my wife mightily".[37] James's taste in women was often maligned, with Gilbert Burnet famously remarking that James's mistresses must have been "given [to] him by his priests as a penance."[39] Anne Hyde died in 1671.
Military and political offices[edit]
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James in the 1660s by John Riley
After the Restoration, James was confirmed as Lord High Admiral, an office that carried with it the subsidiary appointments of Governor of Portsmouth and Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports.[13] Charles II also made his brother the Governor of the Royal Adventurers into Africa (later shortened to the Royal African Company) in October 1660; James retained the office until after the Glorious Revolution when he was forced to resign. When James commanded the Royal Navy during the Second Anglo-Dutch War (1665–1667) he immediately directed the fleet towards the capture of forts off the African coast that would facilitate British involvement in the slave trade (indeed British attacks on such forts occupied by the Dutch precipitated the war itself).[40][41] James remained Admiral of the Fleet during the Third Anglo-Dutch Wars (1672–1674) during which significant fighting also occurred off the African coast.[42] Following the raid on the Medway in 1667, James oversaw the survey and re-fortification of the southern coast.[43] The office of Lord High Admiral, combined with his revenue from post office and wine tariffs (granted him by Charles upon his restoration) gave James enough money to keep a sizeable court household.[44]
In 1664, Charles granted American territory between the Delaware and Connecticut rivers to James. Following its capture by the British the former Dutch territory of New Netherland and its principal port, New Amsterdam, were named the Province and City of New York in James's honour. After the founding, the Duke gave part of the colony to proprietors George Carteret and John Berkeley. Fort Orange, 150 miles (240 km) north on the Hudson River, was renamed Albany after James's Scottish title.[34] In 1683, he became the Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company, but did not take an active role in its governance.[34]
In September 1666, his brother Charles put him in charge of firefighting operations in the Great Fire of London, in the absence of action by Lord Mayor Thomas Bloodworth. This was not a political office, but his actions and leadership were noteworthy. "The Duke of York hath won the hearts of the people with his continual and indefatigable pains day and night in helping to quench the Fire", wrote a witness in a letter on 8 September.[45]
Conversion to Roman Catholicism and second marriage[edit]
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Wedding suit of James II, 1673, in the Victoria and Albert Museum
James's time in France had exposed him to the beliefs and ceremonies of the Roman Catholic Church; he and his wife, Anne, became drawn to that faith.[46][47][c] James took Catholic Eucharist in 1668 or 1669, although his conversion was kept secret for almost a decade as he continued to attend Anglican services until 1676.[49][50] In spite of his conversion, James continued to associate primarily with Anglicans, including John Churchill and George Legge, as well as French Protestants, such as Louis de Duras, the Earl of Feversham.[51]
Growing fears of Roman Catholic influence at court led the English Parliament to introduce a new Test Act in 1673.[52] Under this Act, all civil and military officials were required to take an oath (in which they were required to disavow the doctrine of transubstantiation and denounce certain practices of the Roman Church as superstitious and idolatrous) and to receive the Eucharist under the auspices of the Church of England.[53] James refused to perform either action, instead choosing to relinquish the post of Lord High Admiral. His conversion to Roman Catholicism was thereby made public.[52]
King Charles II opposed James's conversion, ordering that James's daughters, Mary and Anne, be raised in the Church of England.[54] Nevertheless, he allowed James to marry Mary of Modena, a fifteen-year-old Italian princess.[55] James and Mary were married by proxy in a Roman Catholic ceremony on 20 September 1673.[56] On 21 November, Mary arrived in England and Nathaniel Crew, Bishop of Oxford, performed a brief Anglican service that did little more than recognise the marriage by proxy.[57] Many British people, distrustful of Catholicism, regarded the new Duchess of York as an agent of the Papacy.[58] James was noted for his devotion. He once said, "If occasion were, I hope God would give me his grace to suffer death for the true Catholic religion as well as banishment."[59]
Exclusion Crisis[edit]
Main article: Exclusion Crisis
In 1677, King Charles II arranged for James's daughter Mary to marry the Protestant Prince William III of Orange, son of Charles's and James's sister Mary. James reluctantly acquiesced after his brother and nephew had agreed to the marriage.[60][61][d] Despite the Protestant marriage, fears of a potential Catholic monarch persisted, intensified by the failure of Charles II and his wife, Catherine of Braganza, to produce any children. A defrocked Anglican clergyman, Titus Oates, spoke of a "Popish Plot" to kill Charles and to put the Duke of York on the throne.[63] The fabricated plot caused a wave of anti-Catholic hysteria to sweep across the nation.
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The Duke of Monmouth was involved in plots against James.
In England, the Earl of Shaftesbury, a former government minister and now a leading opponent of Catholicism, proposed an Exclusion Bill that would have excluded James from the line of succession.[64] Some members of Parliament even proposed to pass the crown to Charles's illegitimate son, James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth.[65] In 1679, with the Exclusion Bill in danger of passing, Charles II dissolved Parliament.[66] Two further Parliaments were elected in 1680 and 1681, but were dissolved for the same reason.[67] The Exclusion Crisis contributed to the development of the English two-party system: the Whigs were those who supported the Bill, while the Tories were those who opposed it. Ultimately, the succession was not altered, but James was convinced to withdraw from all policy-making bodies and to accept a lesser role in his brother's government.[68]
On the orders of the King, James left England for Brussels.[69] But in 1680, he was appointed Lord High Commissioner of Scotland and took up residence at the Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh to suppress an uprising and oversee royal government.[70] James returned to England for a time when Charles was stricken ill and appeared to be near death.[71] The hysteria of the accusations eventually faded, but James's relations with many in the English Parliament, including the Earl of Danby, a former ally, were forever strained and a solid segment turned against him.[72][73]
Return to favour[edit]
In 1683, a plot was uncovered to assassinate Charles and James and spark a republican revolution to re-establish a government of the Cromwellian style.[74] The conspiracy, known as the Rye House Plot, backfired upon its conspirators and provoked a wave of sympathy for the King and James.[75][76] Several notable Whigs, including the Earl of Essex and the King's illegitimate son, the Duke of Monmouth, were implicated.[74] Monmouth initially confessed to complicity in the plot, implicating fellow-plotters, but later recanted.[74] Essex committed suicide and Monmouth, along with several others, was obliged to flee into Continental exile.[77] Charles reacted to the plot by increasing repression of Whigs and dissenters.[74] Taking advantage of James's rebounding popularity, Charles invited him back onto the Privy Council in 1684.[78] While some in the English Parliament remained wary of the possibility of a Roman Catholic king, the threat of excluding James from the throne had passed.
Reign[edit]
Accession to the throne[edit]
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Coronation procession of King James II and Queen Mary, 1685
Charles died in 1685 from apoplexy after converting to Catholicism on his deathbed.[79] Having no legitimate children, Charles was succeeded by his brother James, who reigned in England and Ireland as James II, and in Scotland as James VII. There was little initial opposition to his accession, and there were widespread reports of public rejoicing at the orderly succession.[80] James wanted to proceed quickly to the coronation, and was crowned with his wife at Westminster Abbey on 23 April 1685.[81] The new Parliament that assembled in May 1685, which gained the name of "Loyal Parliament", was initially favourable to James, and the new king sent word that even most of the former exclusionists would be forgiven if they acquiesced to his rule.[80] Most of Charles's officers continued in office, the exceptions being the promotion of James's brothers-in-law, the earls of Clarendon and Rochester, and the demotion of Halifax.[82] Parliament granted James a generous life income, including all of the proceeds of tonnage and poundage and the customs duties.[83] James worked harder as king than his brother had, but was less willing to compromise when his advisers disagreed.[84]
Two rebellions[edit]
Main articles: Monmouth Rebellion and Argyll's Rising
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James portrayed c. 1685 in his role as head of the army, wearing a general officer's state coat
Soon after becoming king, James faced a rebellion in southern England led by his nephew, the Duke of Monmouth, and another rebellion in Scotland led by Archibald Campbell, the Earl of Argyll.[85][86] Monmouth and Argyll both began their expeditions from Holland, where James's nephew and son-in-law, the Prince of Orange, had neglected to detain them or put a stop to their recruitment efforts.[87]
Argyll sailed to Scotland and, on arriving there, raised recruits mainly from his own clan, the Campbells.[88] The rebellion was quickly crushed, and Argyll was captured at Inchinnan on 18 June 1685.[88] Having arrived with fewer than 300 men and unable to convince many more to flock to his standard, he never posed a credible threat to James.[89] Argyll was taken as a prisoner to Edinburgh. A new trial was not commenced because Argyll had previously been tried and sentenced to death. The King confirmed the earlier death sentence and ordered that it be carried out within three days of receiving the confirmation.
Monmouth's rebellion was coordinated with Argyll's, but was more dangerous to James. Monmouth had proclaimed himself King at Lyme Regis on 11 June.[90] He attempted to raise recruits but was unable to gather enough rebels to defeat even James's small standing army.[91] Monmouth's rebellion attacked the King's forces at night, in an attempt at surprise, but was defeated at the Battle of Sedgemoor.[91] The King's forces, led by Feversham and Churchill, quickly dispersed the ill-prepared rebels.[91] Monmouth was captured and later executed at the Tower of London on 15 July.[92] The King's judges—most notably, George Jeffreys—condemned many of the rebels to transportation and indentured servitude in the West Indies in a series of trials that came to be known as the Bloody Assizes.[93] Around 250 of the rebels were executed.[92] While both rebellions were defeated easily, they hardened James's resolve against his enemies and increased his suspicion of the Dutch.[94]
Religious liberty and dispensing power[edit]
To protect himself from further rebellions, James sought safety by enlarging his standing army.[95] This alarmed his subjects, not only because of the trouble soldiers caused in the towns, but because it was against the English tradition to keep a professional army in peacetime.[96] Even more alarming to Parliament was James's use of his dispensing power to allow Roman Catholics to command several regiments without having to take the oath mandated by the Test Act.[95] When even the previously supportive Parliament objected to these measures, James ordered Parliament prorogued in November 1685, never to meet again in his reign.[97] In the beginning of 1686, two papers were found in Charles II's strong box and his closet, in his own hand, stating the arguments for Catholicism over Protestantism. James published these papers with a declaration signed by his sign manual and challenged the Archbishop of Canterbury and the whole Anglican episcopal bench to refute Charles's arguments: "Let me have a solid answer, and in a gentlemanlike style; and it may have the effect which you so much desire of bringing me over to your church." The Archbishop refused on the grounds of respect for the late king.[98]
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Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester, once a supporter of James, turned against him by 1688.
James advocated repeal of the penal laws in all three of his kingdoms, but in the early years of his reign he refused to allow those dissenters who did not petition for relief to receive it.[e][99][100] James sent a letter to the Scottish Parliament at its opening in 1685, declaring his wish for new penal laws against refractory Presbyterians and lamented that he was not there in person to promote such a law. In response, the Parliament passed an Act that stated, "whoever should preach in a conventicle under a roof, or should attend, either as preacher or as a hearer, a conventicle in the open air, should be punished with death and confiscation of property".[99][101] In March 1686, James sent a letter to the Scottish Privy Council advocating toleration for Roman Catholics but not for rebellious Presbyterian Covenanters.[102][103]Presbyterians would later call this period "The Killing Time".
James allowed Roman Catholics to occupy the highest offices of his kingdoms, and received at his court the papal nuncio, Ferdinando d'Adda, the first representative from Rome to London since the reign of Mary I.[94][104] Edward Petre, James's Jesuit confessor, was a particular object of Anglican ire.[105] When the King's Secretary of State, the Earl of Sunderland, began replacing office-holders at court with "Papist" favourites, James began to lose the confidence of many of his Anglican supporters.[106] Sunderland's purge of office-holders even extended to the King's brothers-in-law (the Hydes) and their supporters.[106] Roman Catholics made up no more than one-fiftieth of the English population.[107] In May 1686, James sought to obtain a ruling from the English common-law courts that showed he had the power to dispense with Acts of Parliament. He dismissed judges who disagreed with him on this matter, as well as the Solicitor General, Heneage Finch.[108] The case of Godden v. Hales affirmed his dispensing power,[109][110] with eleven out of the twelve judges ruling in the king's favour.[111][112]
In 1687, James issued the Declaration of Indulgence, also known as the Declaration for Liberty of Conscience, in which he used his dispensing power to negate the effect of laws punishing both Roman Catholics and Protestant Dissenters.[113] In the summer of 1687 he attempted to increase support for his tolerationist policy by a speaking tour of the western counties of England. As part of this tour, he gave a speech at Chester in which he said, "suppose... there should be a law made that all black men should be imprisoned, it would be unreasonable and we had as little reason to quarrel with other men for being of different [religious] opinions as for being of different complexions."[114] At the same time, James provided partial toleration in Scotland, using his dispensing power to grant relief to Roman Catholics and partial relief to Presbyterians.[115][116]
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1686 statue of James II by Peter Van Dievoet in Trafalgar Square, London
In 1688, James ordered the Declaration read from the pulpits of every Anglican church, further alienating the Anglican bishops against the Supreme Governor of their church.[117] While the Declaration elicited some thanks from its beneficiaries, it left the Established Church, the traditional ally of the monarchy, in the difficult position of being forced to erode its own privileges.[117] James provoked further opposition by attempting to reduce the Anglican monopoly on education.[118] At the University of Oxford, he offended Anglicans by allowing Roman Catholics to hold important positions in Christ Church and University College, two of Oxford's largest colleges. He also attempted to force the Fellows of Magdalen College to elect as their President Anthony Farmer, a man of generally ill repute who was believed to be a Roman Catholic,[f] which was seen as a violation of the Fellows' right to elect someone of their own choosing.[118]
In 1687 James prepared to pack Parliament with his supporters, so that it would repeal the Test Act and the Penal Laws. James was convinced by addresses from Dissenters that he had their support and so could dispense with relying on Tories and Anglicans. He instituted a wholesale purge of those in offices under the Crown opposed to his plan, appointing new lord-lieutenants of counties and remodelling the corporations governing towns and livery companies.[123] In October, James gave orders for the lord-lieutenants to provide three standard questions to all Justices of the Peace: 1. Would they consent to the repeal of the Test Act and the Penal Laws? 2. Would they assist candidates who would do so? 3. Would they accept the Declaration of Indulgence? During the first three months of 1688, hundreds of those who gave negative replies to those questions were dismissed.[124] Corporations were purged by agents, known as the Regulators, who were given wide discretionary powers, in an attempt to create a permanent royal electoral machine.[125] Most of the regulators were Baptists, and the new town officials that they recommended included Quakers, Baptists, Congregationalists, Presbyterians and Roman Catholics, as well as Anglicans.[126] Finally, on 24 August 1688, James ordered the issue of writs for a general election.[127] However, upon realising in September that William of Orange was going to land in England, James withdrew the writs and subsequently wrote to the lord-lieutenants to inquire over allegations of abuses committed during the regulations and election preparations, as part of the concessions he made to win support.[128]
Deposition and the Glorious Revolution[edit]
Main article: Glorious Revolution
James's nephew and son-in-law, William of Orange, was invited to "save the Protestant religion".
In April 1688, James re-issued the Declaration of Indulgence, subsequently ordering Anglican clergy to read it in their churches.[129] When seven Bishops, including the Archbishop of Canterbury, submitted a petition requesting the reconsideration of the King's religious policies, they were arrested and tried for seditious libel.[130][131] Public alarm increased when Queen Mary gave birth to a Roman Catholic son and heir, James Francis Edward, on 10 June that year.[132][133] When James's only possible successors were his two Protestant daughters, Anglicans could see his pro-Catholic policies as a temporary phenomenon, but when the prince's birth opened the possibility of a permanent Roman Catholic dynasty, such men had to reconsider their position.[134][135] Threatened by a Roman Catholic dynasty, several influential Protestants claimed the child was supposititious and had been smuggled into the Queen's bedchamber in a warming pan.[136] They had already entered into negotiations with the Prince of Orange when it became known the Queen was pregnant, and the birth of a son reinforced their convictions.[137][132]
Louis XIV greeting the exiled James II in 1689 ("La Reception faite au Roy d'Angleterre par le Roy à St. Germain en Laye le VIIe janvier 1689", engraving by Nicolas Langlois, 1690)
On 30 June 1688, a group of seven Protestant nobles invited William, Prince of Orange, to come to England with an army.[138] By September, it had become clear that William sought to invade.[139] Believing that his own army would be adequate, James refused the assistance of King Louis XIV of France, fearing that the English would oppose French intervention.[139] When William arrived on 5 November 1688, many Protestant officers, including Churchill, defected and joined William, as did James's own daughter, Anne.[140] James lost his nerve and declined to attack the invading army, despite his army's numerical superiority.[141] On 11 December, James tried to flee to France, first throwing the Great Seal of the Realm into the River Thames.[142] He was captured in Kent; later, he was released and placed under Dutch protective guard. Having no desire to make James a martyr, William let him escape on 23 December.[142] James was received by his cousin and ally, Louis XIV, who offered him a palace and a pension.
William summoned a Convention Parliament to decide how to handle James's flight. It convened on 22 January 1689.[143][144] While the Parliament refused to depose him, they declared that James, having fled to France and dropped the Great Seal into the Thames, had effectively abdicated, and that the throne had thereby become vacant.[145][g] To fill this vacancy, James's daughter Mary was declar
ed Queen; she was to rule jointly with her husband William, who would be King. On 11 April 1689, the Parliament of Scotland declared James to have forfeited the throne of Scotland as well.[147][148] The Convention Parliament issued a Declaration of Right on 12 February that denounced James for abusing his power, and proclaimed many limitations on royal authority. The abuses charged to James included the suspension of the Test Acts, the prosecution of the Seven Bishops for merely petitioning the Crown, the establishment of a standing army, and the imposition of cruel punishments.[149][150] The Declaration was the basis for the Bill of Rights enacted later in 1689. The Bill also declared that henceforth, no Roman Catholic was permitted to ascend the English throne, nor could any English monarch marry a Roman Catholic.[151]
Attempt to regain the throne[edit]
War in Ireland[edit]
Main article: Williamite War in Ireland
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Battle of the Boyne between James II and William III, 11 July 1690, Jan van Huchtenburg
With the assistance of French troops, James landed in Ireland in March 1689.[152] The Irish Parliament did not follow the example of the English Parliament; it declared that James remained King and passed a massive bill of attainder against those who had rebelled against him.[153] At James's urging, the Irish Parliament passed an Act for Liberty of Conscience that granted religious freedom to all Roman Catholics and Protestants in Ireland.[154] James worked to build an army in Ireland, but was ultimately defeated at the Battle of the Boyne on 1 July 1690 O.S. when William arrived, personally leading an army to defeat James and reassert English control.[155] James fled to France once more, departing from Kinsale, never to return to any of his former kingdoms.[155] Because he deserted his Irish supporters, James became known in Ireland as Séamus an Chaca or "James the shit".[156][157] Despite this popular perception, later historian Breandán Ó Buachalla argues that "Irish political poetry for most of the eighteenth century is essentially Jacobite poetry",[158] and both Ó Buachalla and fellow-historian Éamonn Ó Ciardha argue that James and his successors played a central role as messianic figures throughout the eighteenth century for all classes in Ireland.[159][160]
Return to exile, death, and legacy[edit]
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The Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, James's home during his final exile
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Tomb of James II in the parish church of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, commissioned in 1828 by George IV when the church was rebuilt.
In France, James was allowed to live in the royal château of Saint-Germain-en-Laye.[161] James's wife and some of his supporters fled with him, including the Earl of Melfort; most, but not all, were Roman Catholic.[162] In 1692, James's last child, Louisa Maria Teresa, was born.[163] Some supporters in England attempted to assassinate William III to restore James to the throne in 1696, but the plot failed and the backlash made James's cause less popular.[164][165] In the same year, Louis XIV offered to have James elected King of Poland. James rejected the offer, fearing that accepting the Polish crown might (in the minds of the English people) disqualify him from being King of England. After Louis concluded peace with William in 1697, he ceased to offer much assistance to James.[166]
During his last years, James lived as an austere penitent.[167] He wrote a memorandum for his son advising him on how to govern England, specifying that Catholics should possess one Secretary of State, one Commissioner of the Treasury, the Secretary at War, with the majority of the officers in the army.[104]
He died aged 67 of a brain haemorrhage on 16 September 1701 at Saint-Germain-en-Laye.[1][168] James's heart was placed in a silver-gilt locket and given to the convent at Chaillot, and his brain was placed in a lead casket and given to the Scots College in Paris. His entrails were placed in two gilt urns and sent to the parish church of Saint-Germain-en-Laye and the English Jesuit college at Saint-Omer, while the flesh from his right arm was given to the English Augustinian nuns of Paris.[169]
The rest of James's body was laid to rest in a triple sarcophagus (consisting of two wooden coffins and one of lead) at the St Edmund's Chapel in the Church of the English Benedictines in the Rue St. Jacques in Paris, with a funeral oration by Henri-Emmanuel de Roquette.[1] James was not buried, but put in one of the side chapels. Lights were kept burning round his coffin until the French Revolution. In 1734, the Archbishop of Paris heard evidence to support James's canonisation, but nothing came of it.[1] During the French Revolution, James's tomb was raided.[1][b]
Later Hanover succession[edit]
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James's son was known as "James III and VIII" to his supporters, and "The Old Pretender" to his enemies.
James's younger daughter Anne succeeded when William died in 1702. The Act of Settlement provided that, if the line of succession established in the Bill of Rights were extinguished, the crown would go to a German cousin, Sophia, Electress of Hanover, and to her Protestant heirs.[173] Sophia was a granddaughter of James VI and I through his eldest daughter, Elizabeth Stuart, the sister of Charles I. Thus, when Anne died in 1714 (less than two months after the death of Sophia), she was succeeded by George I, Sophia's son, the Elector of Hanover and Anne's second cousin.[173]
Subsequent uprisings and pretenders[edit]
James's son James Francis Edward was recognised as king at his father's death by Louis XIV of France and James's remaining supporters (later known as Jacobites) as "James III and VIII".[174] He led a rising in Scotland in 1715 shortly after George I's accession, but was defeated.[175] Jacobites rose again in 1745 led by Charles Edward Stuart, James II's grandson, and were again defeated.[176] The risings were the last serious attempts to restore the Stuart dynasty.
Charles's claims passed to his younger brother Henry Benedict Stuart, the Dean of the College of Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church.[177] Henry was the last of James II's legitimate descendants, and no relative has publicly acknowledged the Jacobite claim since his death in 1807.[178]
Historiography[edit]
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Macaulay wrote in the Whig tradition.
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Belloc was a notable apologist for James II.
Historical analysis of James II has been somewhat revised since Whig historians, led by Lord Macaulay, cast James as a cruel absolutist and his reign as "tyranny which approached to insanity".[179] Subsequent scholars, such as G. M. Trevelyan (Macaulay's great-nephew) and David Ogg, while more balanced than Macaulay, still characterised James as a tyrant, his attempts at religious tolerance as a fraud, and his reign as an aberration in the course of British history.[180] In 1892, A. W. Ward wrote for the Dictionary of National Biography that James was "obviously a political and religious bigot", although never devoid of "a vein of patriotic sentiment"; "his conversion to the church of Rome made the emancipation of his fellow-catholics in the first instance, and the recovery of England for catholicism in the second, the governing objects of his policy."[181]
Hilaire Belloc, a writer and Catholic apologist, broke with this tradition in 1928, casting James as an honourable man and a true advocate for freedom of conscience, and his enemies "men in the small clique of great fortunes ... which destroyed the ancient monarchy of the English".[182] However, he observed that James "concluded the Catholic church to be the sole authoritative voice on earth, and thenceforward ... he not only stood firm against surrender but on no single occasion contemplated the least compromise or by a word would modify the impression made."
By the 1960s and 1970s, Maurice Ashley and Stuart Prall began to reconsider James's motives in granting religious toleration, while still taking note of James's autocratic rule.[183][184] Modern historians have moved away from the school of thought that preached the continuous march of progress and democracy, Ashley contending that "history is, after all, the story of human beings and individuals, as well as of the classes and the masses."[185] He cast James II and William III as "men of ideals as well as human weaknesses".[185] John Miller, writing in 2000, accepted the claims of James's absolutism, but argued that "his main concern was to secure religious liberty and civil equality for Catholics. Any 'absolutist' methods ... were essentially means to that end."[186]
In 2004, W. A. Speck wrote in the new Oxford Dictionary of National Biography that "James was genuinely committed to religious toleration, but also sought to increase the power of the crown."[187] He added that, unlike the government of the Netherlands, "James was too autocratic to combine freedom of conscience with popular government. He resisted any check on the monarch's power. That is why his heart was not in the concessions he had to make in 1688. He would rather live in exile with his principles intact than continue to reign as a limited monarch."[187]
Tim Harris's conclusions from his 2006 book summarised the ambivalence of modern scholarship towards James II:
The jury will doubtless remain out on James for a long time ... Was he an egotistical bigot ... a tyrant who rode roughshod over the will of the vast majority of his subjects (at least in England and Scotland) ... simply naïve, or even perhaps plain stupid, unable to appreciate the realities of political power ... Or was he a well-intentioned and even enlightened ruler—an enlightened despot well ahead of his time, perhaps—who was merely trying to do what he thought was best for his subjects?[188]
In 2009, Steven Pincus confronted that scholarly ambivalence in 1688: The First Modern Revolution. Pincus claims that James's reign must be understood within a context of economic change and European politics, and makes two major assertions about James II. The first of these is that James purposefully "followed the French Sun King, Louis XIV, in trying to create a modern Catholic polity. This involved not only trying to Catholicize England ... but also creating a modern, centralizing, and extremely bureaucratic state apparatus."[189] The second is that James was undone in 1688 far less by Protestant reaction against Catholicization than by nationwide hostile reaction against his intrusive bureaucratic state and taxation apparatus, expressed in massive popular support for William of Orange's armed invasion of England. Pincus presents James as neither naïve nor stupid nor egotistical. Instead, readers are shown an intelligent, clear-thinking strategically motivated monarch whose vision for a French authoritarian political model and alliance clashed with, and lost out to, alternative views that favoured an entrepreneurial Dutch economic model, feared French power, and were outraged by James's authoritarianism.
Scott Sowerby countered Pincus's thesis in 2013 in Making Toleration: The Repealers and the Glorious Revolution. He noted that English taxes remained low during James II's reign, at about 4% of the English national income, and thus it was unlikely that James could have built a bureaucratic state on the model of Louis XIV's France, where taxes were at least twice as high as a proportion of GDP.[190] Sowerby also contends that James's policies of religious toleration attracted substantial support from religious nonconformists, including Quakers, Baptists, Congregationalists and Presbyterians, who were attracted by the king's push for a new "Magna Carta for liberty of conscience".[191] The king was overthrown, in Sowerby's view, largely because of fears among the Dutch and English elites that James might be aligning himself with Louis XIV in a supposed "holy league" to destroy Protestantism across northern Europe.[192] Sowerby presents James's reign as a struggle between those who believed that the king was sincerely devoted to liberty of conscience and those who were sceptical of the king's espousals of toleration and believed that he had a hidden agenda to overthrow English Protestantism.
Titles, styles, honours, and arms[edit]
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Half crown coin of James II, 1686
Titles and styles[edit]
⦁14 October 1633 – 6 February 1685: The Duke of York
⦁10 May 1659 – 6 February 1685: The Earl of Ulster⦁[14]
⦁31 December 1660 – 6 February 1685: The Duke of Albany
⦁6 February 1685 – 23 December 1688 (by ⦁Jacobites until 16 September 1701): His Majesty The King
The official style of James in England was "James the Second, by the Grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, etc." The claim to France was only nominal, and was asserted by every English king from Edward III to George III, regardless of the amount of French territory actually controlled. In Scotland, he was "James the Seventh, by the Grace of God, King of Scotland, England, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, etc."[4]
James was created "Duke of Normandy" by King Louis XIV of France on 31 December 1660.[14]
In 1734 the Archbishop of Paris opened the cause for the canonisation of James as a saint, making him a Servant of God among Catholics.[193]
Honours[edit]
⦁KG: ⦁Knight of the Garter, 20 April 1642⦁[14]
Arms[edit]
Prior to his accession, James's coat of arms was the royal arms (which he later inherited), differenced by a label of three points Ermine.[194] His arms as king were: Quarterly, I and IV Grandquarterly, Azure three fleurs-de-lis Or (for France) and Gules three lions passant guardant in pale Or (for England); II Or a lion rampant within a double tressure flory-counter-flory Gules (for Scotland); III Azure a harp Or stringed Argent (for Ireland).
James II's coat of arms
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Coat of arms of James, Duke of York, KG
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Coat of arms of James II as king (outside Scotland)
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Coat of arms of King James VII in Scotland
Family tree[edit]
In four generations of Stuarts, there were seven reigning monarchs (not including Hanover's George I). James II was the fourth Stuart monarch, the second of his generation and the father of two more.
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Principal members of the House of Stuart following the 1603 Union of the Crowns.
Issue[edit]
Legitimate issue[edit]
NameBirthDeathNotes
By Anne Hyde
Charles, Duke of Cambridge22 October 16605 May 1661
Mary II30 April 166228 December 1694married 1677, William III, Prince of Orange; no issue
James, Duke of Cambridge11 or 12 July 166320 June 1667
Anne6 February 16651 August 1714married 1683, Prince George of Denmark; no surviving issue
Charles, Duke of Kendal4 July 166622 May 1667
Edgar, Duke of Cambridge14 September 16678 June 1671
Henrietta13 January 166915 November 1669
Catherine9 February 16715 December 1671
By Mary of Modena
Unnamed childMarch or May 1674miscarriage
Catherine Laura10 January 16753 October 1675died of convulsions.[195]
Unnamed childOctober 1675stillborn
Isabel (or Isabella)28 August 16762 or 4 March 1681buried in Westminster Abbey on 4 March (Old Style) as "The Lady Isabella, daughter to the Duke of York"[196]
Charles, Duke of Cambridge7 November 167712 December 1677died of smallpox[195]
Elizabethc. 1678
Unnamed childFebruary 1681stillborn
Charlotte Maria16 August 168216 October 1682died of convulsions[195] and buried in Westminster Abbey on 8 October (Old Style) as "The Lady Charlott-Marie, daughter to the Duke of York"[197]
Unnamed childOctober 1683stillborn
Unnamed childMay 1684miscarriage
James, Prince of Wales "the Old Pretender"10 June 16881 January 1766married 1719, Clementina Sobieska; had issue
Louisa Maria Teresa28 June 169218 April 1712
Illegitimate issue[edit]
NameBirthDeathNotes
By Arabella Churchill
Henrietta FitzJames16673 April 1730Married first Henry Waldegrave; had issue. Married secondly Piers Butler, 3rd Viscount Galmoye; no issue.
James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick21 August 167012 June 1734Married firstly Honora Bourke and had issue. Married secondly Ana Bulkely and had issue.[198]
Henry FitzJames, 1st Duke of AlbemarleAugust 1673December 1702Married Marie Gabrielle d'Audibert de Lussan; had issue.
Arabella FitzJames16747 November 1704Became a nun under the name Ignatia.[198]
By Catherine Sedley
Catherine Darnleyc. 168113 March 1743Alleged daughter. Married firstly, James Annesley, 3rd Earl of Anglesey and had issue. Married secondly, John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby and had issue.[198]
James Darnley168422 April 1685
Charles DarnleyDied young.[198]
Notes[edit]
1.^ 1.Jump up to:a 1.b An assertion found in many sources that James died 6 September 1701 (17 September 1701 1.New Style) may result from a calculation done by an author of anonymous "An Exact Account of the Sickness and Death of the Late King James II, as also of the Proceedings at St. Germains thereupon, 1701, in a letter from an English gentleman in France to his friend in London".1.[2] The account reads: "And on Friday the 17th instant, about three in the afternoon, the king died, the day he always fasted in memory of our blessed Saviour's passion, the day he ever desired to die on, and the ninth hour, according to the Jewish account, when our Saviour was crucified." As 17 September 1701 1.New Style falls on a Saturday and the author insists that James died on Friday, "the day he ever desired to die on", so the author may have miscalculated the date, which later made it to various reference works.1.[3]
2.^ 2.Jump up to:a 2.b MacLeod and Waller wrote that all of James's remains were lost in the French Revolution. The 2.English Illustrated Magazine's 2.article on St. Germain from September 1903 claimed that parts of his bowel interred at the parish church of St. Germain-en-Laye were rediscovered in 1824 and reburied.2.[170] Hilliam disputed that his remains were either scattered or lost, stating that when revolutionaries broke into the church, they were amazed at the body's preservation and it was put on public exhibition where miracles were said to have happened. Hilliam stated that the body was then kept "above ground" until 2.George IV heard about it and ordered the body buried in the parish church of St Germain-en-Laye in 1824.2.[171]2.[172]
^ Anne "made the greatest single impact upon his thinking" and that she converted shortly after the Restoration, "almost certainly before her husband".3.[48]
^ According to Turner, James's reaction to the agreement was "The King shall be obeyed, and I would be glad if all his subjects would learn of me to obey him".4.[62]
^ 5.Covenanters, as they did not recognize James (or any uncovenanted king) as a legitimate ruler, would not petition James for relief from the penal laws.
^ Historians are unclear on Farmer's exact religious affiliation. Macaulay wrote that Farmer "pretended to turn Papist".6.[119] Prall called him a "Catholic sympathizer".6.[120] Miller wrote that "although he had not declared himself a Catholic, it was believed he was no longer an Anglican".6.[121] Ashley did not refer to Farmer by name, but only as the King's Catholic nominee.6.[122] All these sources agreed that Farmer's bad reputation as a "person of scandalous character" was as much a deterrent to his nomination as his uncertain religious loyalties.6.[120]
^ Harris analyses the legal nature of the abdication; James did not agree that he had abdicated.7.[146]
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34.^ 34.Jump up to:a 34.b 34.c 34.d 34.e 34.Miller (2000), pp. 44–45.
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^ 44.Miller (2000), p. 42.
^ Spelling modernized for clarity; quoted by Adrian Tinniswood (2003). 80. By Permission of Heaven: The Story of the Great Fire of London. London: Jonathan Cape.
^ 46.Miller (2000), pp. 58–59.
^ 47.Callow (2000), pp. 144–145.
^ 48.Callow (2000), p. 144.
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52.^ 52.Jump up to:a 52.b 52.Miller (2000), pp. 69–71.
^ 53.Kenyon (1986), p. 385.
^ 54.Waller (2002), p. 92.
^ 55.Waller (2002), pp. 16–17.
^ 56.Miller (2000), p. 73.
^ 57.Turner (1948), pp. 110–111.
^ 58.Waller (2002), pp. 30–31.
^ 59.Miller (2000), p. 99.
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^ 61.Waller (2002), pp. 94–97.
^ 62.Turner (1948), p. 132.
^ 63.Miller (2000), p. 87.
^ 64.Miller (2000), pp. 99–105.
^ 65.Harris (2006), p. 74.
^ 66.Miller (2000), pp. 93–95.
^ 67.Miller (2000), pp. 103–104.
^ 68.Miller (2000), p. 90.
^ 69.Miller (2000), pp. 87–91.
^ 70.Miller (2000), p. 95.
^ 71.Miller (2000), pp. 98–99.
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^ 73.Callow (2000), p. 180-183.
74.^ 74.Jump up to:a 74.b 74.c 74.d 74.Miller (2000), pp. 115–116.
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80.^ 80.Jump up to:a 80.b 80.Miller (2000), pp. 120–121.
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^ 84.Miller (2000), p. 123.
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88.^ 88.Jump up to:a 88.b 88.Harris (2006), pp. 75–76.
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91.^ 91.Jump up to:a 91.b 91.c 91.Miller (2000), p. 141.
92.^ 92.Jump up to:a 92.b 92.Harris (2006), p. 88.
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94.^ 94.Jump up to:a 94.b 94.Miller (2000), p. 142.
95.^ 95.Jump up to:a 95.b 95.Miller (2000), pp. 142–143.
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^ 97.Miller (2000), pp. 146–147.
^ 98.Macaulay (1889), pp. 349–350.
99.^ 99.Jump up to:a 99.b 99.Macaulay (1889), p. 242.
^ 100.Harris (2006), pp. 480–481.
^ 101.Harris (2006), p. 70.
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104.^ 104.Jump up to:a 104.b 104.Macaulay (1889), p. 445.
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^ 122.Ashley (1996), p. 89.
^ 123.Jones (1988), p. 132.
^ 124.Jones (1988), pp. 132–133.
^ 125.Jones (1988), p. 146.
^ 126.Sowerby (2013), pp. 136–143.
^ 127.Jones (1988), p. 150.
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^ 131.Prall (1972), p. 312.
132.^ 132.Jump up to:a 132.b 132.Miller (2000), p. 186–187.
^ 133.Harris (2006), pp. 269–272.
^ 134.Harris (2006), pp. 271–272.
^ 135.Ashley (1996), pp. 110–111.
^ Gregg, Edward (2000). Queen Anne. p. 58. 136.ISBN 136.9780710004000.
^ 137.Waller (2002), pp. 43–46.
^ 138.Ashley (1996), pp. 201–202.
139.^ 139.Jump up to:a 139.b 139.Miller (2000), p. 190–196.
^ 140.Waller (2002), pp. 236–239.
^ 141.Miller (2000), pp. 201–203.
142.^ 142.Jump up to:a 142.b 142.Miller (2000), p. 205–209.
^ Claydon, Tony (2008). 143."William III and II". 143.Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 143.doi:143.10.1093/ref:odnb/29450. 143.ISBN 143.978-0-19-861412-8. (Subscription or 143.UK public library membership required.)
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^ 145.Miller (2000), p. 209.
^ 146.Harris (2006), pp. 320–328.
^ 147.Devine (2006), p. 3.
^ 148.Harris (2006), pp. 402–407.
^ 149.Ashley (1996), pp. 206–209.
^ 150.Harris (2006), pp. 329–348.
^ 151.Harris (2006), pp. 349–350.
^ 152.Miller (2000), pp. 222–224.
^ 153.Miller (2000), pp. 226–227.
^ 154.Harris (2006), p. 440.
155.^ 155.Jump up to:a 155.b 155.Harris (2006), pp. 446–449.
^ Fitzpatrick, Brendan (1988). New Gill History of Ireland 3: Seventeenth-Century Ireland – The War of Religions. Dublin. p. 253. 156.ISBN 156.0-7171-1626-3.
^ Szechi, Daniel (1994). The Jacobites, Britain and Europe, 1688–1788. Manchester University Press. p. 48. 157.ISBN 157.0-7190-3774-3.
^ 158.Ó Buachalla, Breandán (Spring–Summer 1992). "Irish Jacobite Poetry". 158.The Irish Review (12): 40–49. 158.doi:158.10.2307/29735642. 158.JSTOR 158.29735642.
^ 159.Ó Buachalla (1996).
^ 160.Ó Ciardha (2002).
^ 161.Miller (2000), p. 235.
^ 162.Miller (2000), pp. 235–236.
^ 163."Burke's Peerage" (Second World War ed.). p. 228. Retrieved 23 June 2021.
^ 164.Miller (2000), p. 238.
^ 165.Waller (2002), p. 350.
^ 166.Miller (2000), p. 239.
^ 167.Miller (2000), pp. 234–236.
^ 168.Parish register of 168.Saint-Germain-en-Laye, with transcription, at 168.Association Frontenac-Amériques (in French)
^ 169.Mann (2014), p. 223.
^ 170.Hilliam (1998), p. 205.
^ 171.Waller (2002), p. 401.
^ MacLeod, p. 349.
173.^ 173.Jump up to:a 173.b 173.Harris (2006), p. 493.
^ MacLeod, p. 349
^ MacLeod, pp. 361–363
^ MacLeod, pp. 365–371
^ MacLeod, pp. 371–372
^ MacLeod, pp. 373–374
^ 179.Macaulay (1889), p. 239.
^ See Prall, vii–xv, for a more detailed historiography.
^ 181."James II of England" . 181.Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
^ Belloc, vii
^ 183.Ashley (1996), pp. 196–198.
^ 184.Prall (1972), pp. 291–293.
185.^ 185.Jump up to:a 185.b 185.Ashley (1996), p. 9.
^ 186.Miller (2000), p. ix.
187.^ 187.Jump up to:a 187.b 187.Speck, W.A. (September 2004). 187."James II and VII (1633–1701)". 187.Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online May 2006 ed.). 187.Oxford University Press. 187.doi:187.10.1093/ref:odnb/14593. Retrieved 15 October 2007. He 'wished that all his subjects could be as convinced as he was that the Catholic church was the one true church. He was also convinced that the established church was maintained artificially by penal laws that proscribed nonconformity. If these were removed, and conversions to Catholicism were encouraged, then many would take place. In the event his optimism was misplaced, for few converted. James underestimated the appeal of Protestantism in general and the Church of England in particular. His was the zeal and even bigotry of a narrow-minded convert...'
^ 188.Harris (2006), pp. 478–479.
^ Pincus, p. 475
^ 190.Sowerby (2013), pp. 51–53.
^ 191.Sowerby (2013), pp. 43–44.
^ 192.Sowerby (2013), pp. 227–239.
^ 193.Coulombe, Charles (5 March 2019). 193."The forgotten canonisation Cause of King James II". Catholic Herald. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
^ Velde, Francois R. 194."Marks of cadency in the British royal family". Heraldica.
195.^ 195.Jump up to:a 195.b 195.c Weir, p. 260
^ 196.Chester, J. L. (1876). The Marriage, Baptismal, and Burial Registers of the Collegiate Church or Abbey of St. Peter, Westminster. Vol. 10. Harleian Society. p. 201.
^ 197.Chester (1876), p. 206.
198.^ 198.Jump up to:a 198.b 198.c 198.d Weir, p. 263
References[edit]
Ashley, Maurice (1996). The Glorious Revolution of 1688. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. ⦁ISBN ⦁0-340-00896-2.
Belloc, Hilaire (1928). James the Second. ⦁ISBN ⦁9780836959222.
⦁Callow, John (2000). The Making of King James II: The Formative Years of a King. ⦁ISBN ⦁0-7509-2398-9.
Devine, T. M. (2006). The Scottish Nation 1700–2007. ⦁ISBN ⦁0-14-102769-X.
Harris, Tim (2006). Revolution: The Great Crisis of the British Monarchy, 1685–1720. ⦁ISBN ⦁0-7139-9759-1.
⦁Hilliam, David (1998). Kings, Queens, Bones & Bastards. ⦁ISBN ⦁0-7509-3553-7.
⦁Jones, J. R. (1988). The Revolution of 1688 in England. ⦁ISBN ⦁0-297-99467-0.
Kenyon, J. P. (1986). The Stuart Constitution 1603–1688, Documents and Commentary (2nd ed.). ⦁ISBN ⦁0-521-31327-9.
⦁MacLeod, John (1999). Dynasty, the Stuarts, 1560–1807. London. ⦁ISBN ⦁0-340-70767-4.
Macaulay, Thomas Babington (1889). ⦁The History of England from the Accession of James the Second (Popular in two volumes ed.). Longmans.
⦁Mann, Alastair (2014). James VII: Duke and King of Scots, 1633–1701. ⦁ISBN ⦁9781907909092.
⦁Miller, John (2000). James II (3rd ed.). ⦁ISBN ⦁0-300-08728-4.
Ó Buachalla, Breandán (1996), Aisling ghéar: na Stíobhartaigh agus an taos léinn, 1603-1788 (in Irish), ⦁ISBN ⦁0-903758-99-7
Ó Ciardha, Éamonn (2002), Ireland and the Jacobite Cause, 1685–1766, Dublin, ⦁ISBN ⦁1-85182-534-7
⦁Pincus, Steven (2009). 1688: The First Modern Revolution. ⦁ISBN ⦁978-0-300-11547-5.
⦁Prall, Stuart (1972). The Bloodless Revolution: England, 1688. ⦁ISBN ⦁978-0299102944.
⦁Royle, Trevor (2004). The British Civil Wars: The Wars of the Three Kingdoms, 1638–1660. ⦁ISBN ⦁0-312-29293-7.
⦁Sowerby, Scott (2013). Making Toleration: The Repealers and the Glorious Revolution. ⦁ISBN ⦁978-0-674-07309-8.
Speck, W. A. (2002). James II. ⦁ISBN ⦁9780582287129.
⦁Turner, Francis C. (1948). James II. ⦁ISBN ⦁9781346305783.
⦁Waller, Maureen (2002). Ungrateful Daughters: The Stuart Princesses who Stole Their Father's Crown. ⦁ISBN ⦁0-312-30711-X.
Further reading[edit]
⦁Ashley, Maurice (1978). James II. ⦁online free to borrow
⦁DeKrey, Gary S. (2008). "Between Revolutions: Re-appraising the Restoration in Britain" History Compass 6 (3): 738–773.
⦁Earle, Peter (1972). The Life and Times of James II. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
⦁Glassey, Lionel, ed. (1997). The Reigns of Charles II and James VII and II.
⦁Goodlad, Graham (2007). "Before the Glorious Revolution: The Making of Absolute Monarchy? Graham Goodlad Examines the Controversies Surrounding the Development of Royal Power under Charles II and James II" History Review 58: 10 ff.
⦁Johnson, Richard R. (1978). "Politics Redefined: An Assessment of Recent Writings on the Late Stuart Period of English History, 1660 to 1714." William and Mary Quarterly 35 (4): 691–732. ⦁doi:⦁10.2307/1923211
⦁Miller, John (1997). The Glorious Revolution (2nd ed.). ⦁ISBN ⦁0-582-29222-0.
⦁Miller, John (2004). The Stuarts. ⦁ISBN ⦁9781852854324.
⦁Mullett, M. (1993). James II and English Politics 1678–1688. ⦁ISBN ⦁0-415-09042-3.
⦁Ogg, David (1957). England in the Reigns of James II and William III, 2nd ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
⦁Walcott, Robert (1962). "The Later Stuarts (1660–1714): Significant Work of the Last Twenty Years (1939–1959)" American Historical Review 67 (2): 352–370 ⦁doi:⦁10.2307/1843428
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James, the second son of Charles I and Henrietta Maria, was born atSt. James Palace, London, in 1633. He was given the the title, Duke ofYork and during the Civil War he escaped to the Netherlands.

James served in the army commanded by Vicomte de Turenne (1652-55) beforejoining the Spanish fighting against the Protestants in Flanders.

On 3 September 1658, Oliver Cromwell died. A few months previously,Cromwell had announced that he wanted his son, Richard Cromwell, toreplace him as Lord Protector of the Commonwealth. The English army wasunhappy with this decision. While they respected Oliver as a skillfulmilitary commander, Richard was just a country farmer. In May 1659, thegenerals forced Richard to retire from government.

Parliament and the leaders of the army now began arguing amongstthemselves about how England should be ruled. General George Monk, theofficer in charge of the English army based in Scotland, decided to takeaction, and in 1660 he marched his army to London.

When Monk arrived he reinstated the House of Lords and arranged for newelections for the House of Commons. These elections resulted in Royalistsgaining control of Parliament from the Independents. Monk now contactedCharles who was living in Holland. Charles agreed that if he was madeking he would pardon all members of the parliamentary army and wouldcontinue with the Commonwealth's policy of religious toleration. Charlesalso accepted that he would share power with Parliament and would notrule as an 'absolute' monarch as his father had tried to do in the 1630s.

This information was passed to Parliament and it was eventually agreed toabolish the Commonwealth and bring back the monarchy. Parliament raisednearly £1 million and with this money soldiers in the army were paid offand sent home. At the same time Charles was granted permission to formtwo permanent regiments for himself, the Royal Scots and the ColdstreamGuards.

James returned with his brother and was appointed as Lord High Admiral ofEngland. James married Anne Hyde, a Catholic and he later converted toCatholicism. In 1673 Parliament passed the Test Acts that preventedCatholics from being Members of Parliament or from holding any other highoffice. As a result of this legislation James was forced to resign asLord High Admiral.

After the death of Anne Hyde, James married Mary of Modena, anotherCatholic. This upset Parliament and James decided to live in Europe.While he was away members of the House of Commons attempted to excludehim from the succession. However, the Exclusion Bill was defeated by theHouse of Lords.

In 1678, Titus Oates, an Anglican minister announced that he haddiscovered a Catholic plot to kill Charles II. Oates claimed that Charleswas to be replaced by his Roman Catholic brother, James. He went on toargue that after James came to the throne Protestants would be massacredin their thousands. This announcement made Catholics more unpopular thanever, and eighty of them were arrested and accused of taking part in theplot. Several were executed before it was revealed that Titus Oates hadbeen lying.

Charles and his wife Catherine of Braganza did not have any children.There were two possible candidates to become king when Charles died;James and James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, the king's eldest illegitimate son.

Just before he died in February 1685, Charles admitted that he was a Catholic. He also announced that his brother James was to succeed him to the throne.

In June 1685, the Duke of Monmouth landed in England with a small army. As he was a Protestant he expected most of the population to support his claim to the throne, but people in England were unwilling to get involved in another Civil War. Monmouth was therefore easily defeated by theking's army.

After this victory James tried to place Catholic friends in positions of power. However, the Test Acts made it impossible for him to do this. When Parliament refused to change these laws, he ignored it and began appointing Catholics to senior positions in the army and the government.

James also announced that he intended to allow Catholics to have complete religious freedom in England. When the Archbishop of Canterbury and six other bishops objected to this, James gave instructions for them to be arrested and sent to the Tower of London.

Some members of the House of Commons sent messages to Holland inviting James's daughter, Mary and her husband, William, Prince of Orange to come to England. Mary and William were told that, as they were Protestants,they would have the support of Parliament if they attempted to overthrowJames.

In November 1688, William, Prince of Orange and his Dutch army arrived in England. When the English army refused to accept the orders of their Catholic officers, James fled to France. As the overthrow of James had taken place without a violent Civil War, this event became known as theGlorious Revolution.

William and Mary were now appointed by Parliament as joint sovereigns. However, Parliament was determined that it would not have another monarch that ruled without its consent. The king and queen had to promise they would always obey laws made by Parliament. They also agreed that they would never raise money without Parliament's permission. So that they could not get their own way by the use of force, William and Mary were not allowed to keep control of their own army. In 1689 this agreement wa sconfirmed by the passing of the Bill of Rights.

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