How To Use James ii In A Sentence
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just like in the good auld days of Henry VIII, Bloody Mary and James II.
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Just as James II had "abdicated" in the Glorious Revolution of 1689, now George un-kinged himself.
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James II flung the great seal into the Thames when he fled in 1688, hoping to bring government to a standstill, but it was retrieved by a fisherman.
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It's also named for the deposed Catholic king of Great Britain, James II and VII, who inspired what became known as the Jacobite movement.
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James Edward (the Old Pretender, son of James II, d. 1701) landed in Scotland, but the French fleet assisting him was beaten and he returned to France.
1706
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In 1685 after King James II's coronation, a choirman, Charles Taylour, removed a gold cross and chain having seen it glint through a hole in the coffin.
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The short-lived and disastrous attempt by James II to restore catholicism to England put paid to any restoration of relations with the papacy for all but the small recusant catholic community.
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Which brings us to London in the 1690s, just after the Glorious Revolution that drove James II from his throne in a coup led by Prince William of Orange.
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Eventually he was reappointed to his post which he held until the Glorious Revolution after which he lost his office once again, this time because of his loyalty to James II.
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James II had been overthrown because of serial misjudgment monumental even by Stuart standards, but also because, in 1688, his queen produced a healthy heir, James Edward, who would be brought up a Catholic and would therefore, most Britons feared, restore Catholicism as the religion of the royal house.
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But unfortunately the expulsion of James II, which he called his "abdication," compelled him to use all reserve, to shuffle and to tergiversate, in order to avoid making William out a usurper.
The Social Contract
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In 1487, eager to appease France, Pope Innocent VIII granted James III an ‘indult’, giving him the right to prefer to Scottish livings and higher Church posts.
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In 1688 when the British Parliament dethroned James II and established political supremacy over the monarchy, its bill of rights became the fundamental, durable instrument of constitutional law.
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The rising in which the Earl of Derwentwater took part in the year 1715 was in support of the son of James II, James Edward, whose adherents were defeated at Preston in November of the same year, the unfortunate Earl, with many others, being taken prisoner.
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When James II ascended the throne in 1685 and Catholicised the country Prince William planned to invade Britain in the name of his Protestant wife.
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The Twelfth" officially commemorates the July 12, 1690, triumph of Protestant King William of Orange versus the Catholic he deposed from the English throne, James II, at the Battle of the Boyne south of Belfast.
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Parliament decided that James II. had "abdicated," when, deserted by
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Sarah persuaded Anne to support brother-in-law William of Orange, Protestant stadholder of the Netherlands, when he overthrew James II in 1688.
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James II's queen and courtiers took profits from the sale of those transported to the West Indies.
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When in 1688, after Roman Catholic James II (England's last absolute monarch) was sent on a permanent vacation by his daughter Mary II, his son in law stadholder William III and the protestant parliamentarians who invited them, the Roman Catholics in England were not allowed to vote for 100 years.
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In 1487, eager to appease France, Pope Innocent VIII granted James III an ‘indult’, giving him the right to prefer to Scottish livings and higher Church posts.
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In 1687, shortly before he had finished writing his Principia, he actively opposed King James II's attempt to Catholicise the universities and other institutions.
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Bolingbroke and the more reckless Tories were coquetting with the son of King James II.
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At the coronation of James II., and also at that of George I., two of the king's musicians walked in the procession, clad in scarlet mantles, playing each on a sackbut, and another, drest in a similar manner, playing on a double curtal, or bassoon.
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There was a fine demipique saddle, said to have been that of James II.
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On the foliated capital are four coats of arms, and the first has the lion within the double tressure, and the armorial bearings are usually supposed to be those of King James II. (1436-1460); the second, impaled, of his Queen, Mary of Gueldres (1449-1463); the third has also the lion within the double tressure and a label of three points, which is held to denote a prince or heir, if not a younger son.
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There is a similar parallel between the revolution of 1399 which dethroned Richard II and that of 1688 which ended the reign of James II.
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Some studies of the period declare their purposes by featuring a personage - absent, I would guess, from all school wallcharts of the Kings and Queens of England - called James III (and sometimes a monarch called Charles III).
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The final Anglo-Dutch conflict ended in 1674, ushering in a peaceful period that was reinforced when Mary, the English Catholic daughter of James II, married her Protestant cousin Williams ill of Orange, stadtholder of the Netherlands.
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Louis determined to support an Irish rebellion seeking to reinstall the deposed Catholic James II to the English throne.