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James VII and II
New York named after James as Duke of York
Queen Henrietta Maria by unknown Charles I 1631 by Daniel Mytens, artist, National Portrait Gallery National Portrait Gallery 1 2
James with his older siblings, Charles and Mary c. 1624 by Sir Anthony van Dyck , Turin James with his older siblings, Charles and Mary by Sir Anthony van Dyck , Royal Collection
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Charles II as Prince of Wales by Sir Anthony van Dyck 1632-5 and 1637-8 Five children of Charles I 1637 by Sir Anthony van Dyck (Charles, Mary, James, Elizabeth & Anne) 5 6
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St James’s Palace where James was born in 1633 and designated as duke of York. He returned in 1646 when captured at the fall of Oxford
Charles and James 1639 by Cornelius Johnson, Queen’s House Greenwich 7 8
William Laud archbishop of Canterbury who baptised James Princess Mary 1639 by Cornelius as an Anglican Johnson, Queen’s House Greenwich
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Princess Mary c. 1636 by Sir Princess Mary’s betrothal with her Anthony van Dyck, Boston future husband William II of Orange 1641 by Sir Anthony van Dyck, Rijksmuseum
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Princess Mary and William II of Orange 1647 by Gerard von Honthorst, Rijksmuseum
James with his younger siblings Elizabeth and Henry 1647 by Sir Peter Lely, Petworth 13 14
Princess Elizabeth, National Portrait Gallery
Princesses Elizabeth and Anne 1637 by Sir Anthony van Dyck, Scottish National Portrait Gallery
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Prince Henry Duke of Gloucester c. 1653 by Adriaen Hanneman, National Gallery Princess Henrietta Anne, Duchess of Washington Orleans c. 1665-70 by Pierre Mignard, National Portrait Gallery
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George and Francis Villiers 1635 by Sir Anthony van Dyck, Royal Collection
Radhill Tower near site of Battle of Edgehill 1642 where James narrowly escaped capture by Parliament
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Charles II 1642 by William Dobson, Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Oxford 1642 where James gained his MA and was created KG 21 22
James c. 1644-5 by William Dobson, Royal Collection
Algernon Percy, 10th Earl of Northumberland and his first wife Anne and daughter Catherine James’s warders 1646-8, c. 1637 after Sir Anthony van Dyck 23 24
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The Hague where James escaped to in 1648 from a painting by Sybrand van Beest c 1650
James with his father 1647 studio of Sir Peter Lely 25 26
Louis XIV who welcomed James in 1649 shortly after the execution of Charles I and shortly before the news reached France. Portrait by Charles Le Brun c 1661
James joined his mother’s court in exile in France
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Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne c. 1670 by Circle of Philippe de Champaigne. James served under him in French wars
Episode of the Fronde at the Faubourg Saint-Antoine by the Walls of the Bastille in 1652 by unknown artist 29 30
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Charles handing prize to James with Henry in the Schuttershof Bruges in October 1656 when James shot the papegay by Jan Baptist van Meunincxhove 1671 Dinner for the royal borthers by the guild of St Barbara 1656 by Jan Baptist van Meunincxhove 1671 31 32
James’s brother Henry whom he joined in Bruges in 1656 to fight for the Spanish against the French Louis Grand Condé c. 1670 by Justus van Egmont, Condé Museum. James served under him for Spain fighting the French
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Richard Talbot earl of Tyrconnell, the Irish Frances Jennings, sister of Sarah later Duchess Catholic who with his brother Peter of Marlborough, became Tyrconnell’s second befriended James in exile. Peter was Battle of the Dunes 1658, a French victory over Spain in which James fought on the losing side wife in 1681 archbishop of Dublin 1669-80 but led several charges and was commended for his bravery 35 36
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Diamond Point Etching on Glass of James c. 1660 English
Treaty of the Pyrenees 1659 where Louis XIV of France and Philip IV of Spain ended the war that had lasted since 1635. James was offered a position as admiral by Philip 37 38
Procession from the Tower to Westminster for Charles II’s Coronation 23 April 1661, the Duke of York on the left having gone through the next arch
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Henrietta Anne as Minerva holding a painting of her husband Philippe Duke of Orleans by Antoine Mathieu. Married in 1661 cementing close friendship between Stuarts and French monarchy
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The Second Dutch War 1665-7
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Battle of Lowestoft 3 June 1665 showing the Royal Charles and the Eendracht by Hendrik van Minderhout, National Maritime Museum 45 46
James dressed Mars after his victory at Lowestoft by Henri Gascar
Battle of Lowestoft 3 June 1665 Burning of the Dutch Flagship by van Dierst
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James’s Seal
St James’s Day Battle August 1666 49 50
Samuel Pepys Secretary to the Navy and diarist who knew James and described the Plague, the Fire and the Dutch raid on Chatham
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London before the fire c 1665 including Old St Paul’s
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The Great Fire of London 1666 by unknown artist c. 1700
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Dutch attack on Sheerness Chatham
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Burning of British Ships in the Medway 20 June 1667 by Jan van Leyden
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German Print of de Ruyter’s raid in the Medway 67 68
Royal Coat of Arms from the Royal Charles in the Rijksmuseum
Drawing of the Royal Charles by van der Velde New fortifications at Plymouth by Hendrik Danckerts
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Congress of Breda 1667 French Royal Family c 1669 by Jean Nocret 71 72
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Louis XIV after Lefebvre 1673
Louis XIV crossing the Rhine 12 June 1672 by Adam Frans van der Meulen
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The Burning of HMS Royal James at the Battle of Solebay 28 May 1672 by Peter Monamy, The Third Dutch War 1672-4 National Maritime Museum 75 76
The Burning of HMS Royal James at the Battle of Solebay 28 May 1672 by Willem van de Velde, National Maritime Museum 77 78
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The Gouden Leeuw at the Battle of Texel 21 August 1673 by Willem van de Velde, National Lord Shaftesbury and Duke of Buckingham, leaders of the Exclusionist Faction in Parliament Maritime Museum
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1673 Test Act which forced James Titus Oates by Godfrey Kneller to resign all his offices
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Pickerin attempts to kill the Pickerin executed King in St James’s Park
Captain Bedlow the discoverer of the plot Captain Bedlow examined by the Secret Committee of the House of Commons Sir William Meller burning The Popish Plot on Delft Tiles by Jan Ariens van Hamme produced at Lambeth c. 1679-80, Popish books images and Victoria and Albert Museum relics
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Mr Edward Coleman as he was drawn on a sledge to execution December 4th 1678 for high treason against his Majesty’s sacred person and endeavouring the alteration of the Protestant religion and subversion of the government, woodcut broadsheet
Edward Coleman, James’s secretary, dragged to execution after the Popish Plot in 1678, woodcut broadsheet
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Satire on the Popish Plot 1681
Broadside on the Popish Plot with twelve scenes mocking the account given by Titus Oates and his associates of the death of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey, British Museum 87 88
George of Hanover in 1680 the year he came to England
Satire of 1680 on the prospects of Popish successor
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Marquis of Powis, one of the five William Howard, Lord Stafford indicted Lords who spent 6 years in executed 1680 on false evidence of the Tower but became one of James’s Titus Oates, witnessed by George I, Privy Councillors and followed him painted by Van Dyck 1638. James into exile restored his widow’s and son’s titles when he became king
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Artist’s impression of a conventicle
Holyrood House Edinburgh 1649
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Oates in the pillory 1681
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Newmarket Palace House built by James I and used by Charles and James when at the races
Rye House by Turner 1793
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The Plotters Armstrong, Argyll, Arthur Capell Earl of Essex who Essex, Cornish, Russell, Monmouth committed suicide in the Tower and Sidney, all dead by 1685 after the Rye House Plot 1683, painted by Lely 1672
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The last woman executed Execution of Thomas Armstrong MP, for a political crime for one of the Rye House Plotters helping James Burton to escape to Amsterdam. He was pardoned.
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William Lord Russell beheaded for his part in the plot, painted by Gerard Soest
Trial of Lord Russell as imagined by George Hayter in 1825
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Rye House Plot Broadsheet Titus Oates indicted for perjury, imprisoned and flogged in the pillory at Westminster Hall May 1685 by Jan Wyck, Museum of London 105 106
Warrant 12 June 1685 by Mary of Modena to the Mint asking for her great seal
Embassy from the Pope to James disembarking at Somerset House November 1685
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Ferdinando d’Adda Papal Nuncio to James Archibald Campbell 9th Earl of Argyll 1680 by David Loggan
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Duke of Monmouth 1672 by Henri Gascar, Boughton Hall
Duke of Monmouth 1672 in battle with the Dutch by Jan van Wyck, National Portrait Gallery 111 112
James Scott Duke of Monmouth 1683 after William Wissing, National Portrait Gallery
Act of Attainder for Monmouth
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Battle of Sedgemoor 5 July 1685 with king’s army commanded by Louis de Duras 2nd Earl of Feversham and Sir Francis Compton with John Churchill 115 116
John Baron Churchill Scythes used as weapons by Monmouths’ supporters
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The late Duke of Monmouth beheaded on George Lord Jeffreys (Judge Tower Hill 15 July 1685 on a playing card, seven Jeffreys) c. 1678-80 by William of spades Wolfgang Claret
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James’s declaration on Liberty of Conscience April 1687
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The Seven Bishops in the Tower June 1688 by unknown artist, Natinal Portrait Gallery
The Oxford election of 14 March 1688 by Egbert van Heemskerck II, Oxford Museum 123 124
Invitation to William 30 June1688 Mother of Pearl engraving in 1688 showing James trampling the scales of justice
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Dutch engraving showing Britannia welcoming William and Mary
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Medal of 1788 showing James throwing the great seal into Thames 129 130
James embarking at Rochester on way to France arriving on Christmas Day 1688 Flight of Mary of Modena from Whitehall in December 1688 131 132
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Arrest of Judge Jeffreys in Wapping Resolution on James’s before being taken to the Tower to abdication/desertion die in April 1689
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The Pass at Killiecrankie site of the battle on 27 July 1689
Louis XIV welcoming James to St Germain en Laye 7th January 1689 135 136
James landing at Kinsale on 12 March 1689 137 138
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The Battle of the Boyne 1 July 1690
The Siege of Londonderry in 1689 with James and the French on left
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James’s armour, Tower of London
The Battle of the Boyne 1 July 1690 by Jan van Huchtenburg
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Glen Coe site of the Massacre on 13 February 1692 Battle of La Hogue 1692 143 144
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Château of Saint-Germain-en-Laye
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James’s Tomb at St Germain en Laye Tomb of James’s brain at Scots College Paris
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Reliquary box of James’s with a smear of blood and few hairs and piece of garter ribbon
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