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King James II

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King James II

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Auction Date:2011 Nov 09 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Became King of England, King of Scots, and King of Ireland in 1685. He was the last Catholic monarch to reign over the Kingdom of England, Kingdom of Scotland, or Kingdom of Ireland. Some of his subjects distrusted his religious policies and alleged despotism, leading a group of them to depose him in the Glorious Revolution. ALS signed with a paraph sometimes interpreted as “J,” one page both sides, 6.5 x 9, July 19, 1683. Letter to his niece Charlotte Fitzroy. In part: “I have not written to you since I came here having had so much business and so little tyme to myself that really I would not I could not, and…that I could hardly have begun to write you newse with out having made my letter long and that I had not the leasur to do, but now God be thanked there is so great a discovery of this horrid conspiracy, and some of them as you know are condemned, and will be executed tomorrow and the next day, that we have not so much bussinesse to do, the Prince of Denmark is come in to the River, and will I believe will be here this evening.” Second integral page is affixed to a slightly larger off-white sheet In very good condition, with central horizontal and vertical fold, and moderate toning along central vertical fold to both pages, not affecting legibility.

In 1683 conspirators met to plan the assassination of Catholic sympathizers Charles II and James II as they rode back from the Newmarket Races on April 1. Known as the Rye House Plot, details of the conspiracy leaked out on June 12, 1683. Richard Rumbold, owner of the manor Rye House, was to hide 100 troops at his property then ambush the king and his brother on the road. Fate intervened when a fire consumed half of Newmarket on March 22 and the races were canceled. Behind the plot were a mix of Whig politicans, nobles, army officers, Scotsmen and other minor players. On July 12, the trials began for the arrested and sentences handed down.

As the plot unraveled, James had been preparing for the July 28 marriage of his daughter Ann to Prince George of Denmark. The prince arrived the same day the duke wrote to Charlotte in which James confirmed the penalty dates for the convicted traitors: "some of them as you know are condemned, and will be executed tomorrow and the next day." On July 20, Captain Thomas Walcot, William Hone, and John Rouse were executed and July 21, William Lord Russell, son of the Earl of Bedford was beheaded. Charles II's illegimate son James, the Duke of Monmouth, was banished to the Netherlands only to return two years later and to launch the Monmouth Rebellion to overthrow the new king, James II, in 1685.
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