Author: George Roberts
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Languages : en
Pages : 402
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The life, progresses and rebellion of James Duke of Monmouth & to his capture and execution
Author: George Roberts
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 402
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Languages : en
Pages : 402
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The Last Royal Rebel
Author: Anna Keay
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 140884608X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
'A superb biography, which paints a vivid picture of the times and of her subject' Daily Telegraph 'Fascinating, compelling, outrageous and ultimately tragic' Simon Sebag Montefiore 'It is the best royal biography I have read in years' A.N. Wilson From the Duff Cooper Prize-winning author of The Restless Republic, a remarkable biography of one of the most intriguing figures of the Restoration era. James, Duke of Monmouth, the favoured illegitimate son of Charles II, was born in exile the year his grandfather Charles I was executed and the English monarchy abolished. Abducted from his mother on his father's orders, he emerged from a childhood in the backstreets of Rotterdam to command the ballrooms of Paris, the brothels of Covent Garden and the battlefields of Flanders. Such was his appeal that when the monarchy itself came under threat, the cry was for Monmouth to succeed Charles II as king. He inspired both delight and disgust, adulation and abhorrence and, in time, love and loyalty. Louis XIV was his mentor, Nell Gwyn his protector, D'Artagnan his lieutenant, William of Orange his confidant, John Dryden his censor and John Locke his comrade. In The Last Royal Rebel, Anna Keay matches rigorous scholarship with a storyteller's gift to enrapturing effect. She paints a vivid portrait of the warm, courageous and handsome Duke of Monmouth, a man who by his own admission 'lived a very dissolute and irregular life', but who was ultimately prepared to risk everything for honour and justice. His story, culminating in his fateful invasion, provides a sweeping chronicle of the turbulent decades in which England as we know it was forged.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 140884608X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
'A superb biography, which paints a vivid picture of the times and of her subject' Daily Telegraph 'Fascinating, compelling, outrageous and ultimately tragic' Simon Sebag Montefiore 'It is the best royal biography I have read in years' A.N. Wilson From the Duff Cooper Prize-winning author of The Restless Republic, a remarkable biography of one of the most intriguing figures of the Restoration era. James, Duke of Monmouth, the favoured illegitimate son of Charles II, was born in exile the year his grandfather Charles I was executed and the English monarchy abolished. Abducted from his mother on his father's orders, he emerged from a childhood in the backstreets of Rotterdam to command the ballrooms of Paris, the brothels of Covent Garden and the battlefields of Flanders. Such was his appeal that when the monarchy itself came under threat, the cry was for Monmouth to succeed Charles II as king. He inspired both delight and disgust, adulation and abhorrence and, in time, love and loyalty. Louis XIV was his mentor, Nell Gwyn his protector, D'Artagnan his lieutenant, William of Orange his confidant, John Dryden his censor and John Locke his comrade. In The Last Royal Rebel, Anna Keay matches rigorous scholarship with a storyteller's gift to enrapturing effect. She paints a vivid portrait of the warm, courageous and handsome Duke of Monmouth, a man who by his own admission 'lived a very dissolute and irregular life', but who was ultimately prepared to risk everything for honour and justice. His story, culminating in his fateful invasion, provides a sweeping chronicle of the turbulent decades in which England as we know it was forged.
The Parliamentary History of England, from the Earliest Period to the Year 1803
Author: William Cobbett
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 846
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 846
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The Duke of Monmouth
Author: BRENNAN LAURA
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781399075145
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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ISBN: 9781399075145
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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A Bibliography of Royal Proclamations of the Tudor and Stuart Sovereigns and of Others Published Under Authority, 1485-1714: England and Wales
Author: James Ludovic Lindsay Earl of Crawford
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Category : Broadsides
Languages : en
Pages : 770
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Category : Broadsides
Languages : en
Pages : 770
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Tudor and Stuart Proclamations, 1485-1714: England and Wales
Author: James Ludovic Lindsay Earl of Crawford
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Category : Broadsides
Languages : en
Pages : 754
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Category : Broadsides
Languages : en
Pages : 754
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1688
Author: Steven C. A. Pincus
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300156057
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
Examines England's Glorious Revolution of 1688-1689 through a broad geographical and chronological framework, discussing its repercussions at home and abroad and why the subsequent ideological break with the past makes it the first modern revolution.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300156057
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
Examines England's Glorious Revolution of 1688-1689 through a broad geographical and chronological framework, discussing its repercussions at home and abroad and why the subsequent ideological break with the past makes it the first modern revolution.
Bibliotheca Lindesiana
Author: James Ludovic Lindsay Earl of Crawford
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Languages : en
Pages : 762
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Languages : en
Pages : 762
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Calendar of the Manuscripts of the Marquis of Bath Preserved at Longleat, Wiltshire: The Harley papers, 1516-1785
Author: Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Sessional Papers
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 848
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Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 848
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