King James Ii

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James to Holland so he could escape the beleaguered Britain and he did it successfully. James was being held captive because he was influenced by the Catholic religion. In 1649, Queen Henrietta Maria summoned James to Paris where he heard of his father's execution . After James's father Charles I died James's brother became king much to the dislike of James. James did not want to spend anymore time in the French Court so he asked permission to volunteer for the king of France's Army.(5) James wandered into foreign military service during the Commonwealth period (1649-1660). James fought many battles against the Spanish while he was a naval officer for Charles II. Within the Stuart Dynasty he served his brother as lord high admiral , administered colonies in Africa and New York and fought at sea in two battles against Holland in 1665 and 1672.(6) In 1659 James promised Anne Hyde marriage and their love was secretly consummated and then on September 3, 1660 they were married at ...

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princess. The Monmouth Rebellion led by his illegitimate nephew was put down so severely by Judge Jeffery's that James popularity was impaired.(11) He attempted to master opposition by controlling local elections, expelling Protestant university officials and replacing them with Catholics, reviving the Anglican Church 's High Commission, which removed the critical Bishop of London and maintain a standing army outside London and maintaining a standing army outside London, while granting toleration to Catholics and to Protestant Dissenters.(12) He did all this by decree and not by Parliamentary statute. When the archbishop of Canterbury refused to promulgate the decree, he and six ...

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