However, as conspiracy neared completion in 1688, the English government sometimes used to disrupt this correspondence by holding up the whole mail delivery system.

Alexander Pope ( 1688 – 1744 ) owned a copy of Rogers ' reprint of Crowley's edition of Piers Plowman with the Crede appended, and Isaac D ' Israeli ( 1766 – 1848 ) wrote in his Amenities of Literature that Pope had " very carefully analyzed the whole " of the latter text.

In the “ War of the Palatine Succession ” ( 1688 – 1697 ) – also called the “ War of the Grand Alliance ”, the “ Nine Years ’ War ” or occasionally, the “ War of the League of Augsburg ” the town experienced the greatest and most far-reaching destruction in its history by General Melac: the expulsion of its inhabitants and the whole town put to the torch, including the cathedral with the tombs of the ancient emperors, churches, monasteries, and guild halls.

Other fires ravaged the complex in 1588, 1618 ( when the Bit Pazari was destroyed ), 1645, 1652, 1658, 1660 ( on that occasion the whole city was devastated ) 1687, 1688 ( great damage occurred to the Uzun Carsi ) 1695, 1701.

In 1622 the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith created an apostolic vicariate for the whole of England, which was divided into four districts in 1688.

Tyrrell's moderate position came to dominate Whiggism, and British constitutionalism as a whole, from 1688 to the 1770s.

On 25 January 1688, the nuns obtained permission to celebrate her feast with an octave, and in 1696 the celebration of the feast on 31 August was permitted to the whole Franciscan Order.

His Arithmetic in whole Numbers and Fractions, both Vulgar and Decimal, with Tables for the Forbearance and Rebate of Money, & c., was published by Thomas Plant in 1688.

In 1688, it was owned by the director of the Kongsberg Silver Mines, Schlanbusch, and remained in his family until 1781.

The profession of executioner sometimes ran through a family, especially in France where the Sanson family provided six executioners between 1688 and 1847, and the Deibler dynasty provided five between 1879 and abolition in 1981 ( Louis Deibler, his son Anatole, Anatole's nephew Jules-Henri Desfourneaux, another nephew of Anatole, André Obrecht, and finally André's nephew, Marcel Chevalier ).

After the rule of the Grudziński family came to an end in 1688, the Działyński family came into power.

The barony Howard de Walden however eventually passed out of the Howard family with the death of James Howard, 3rd Earl of Suffolk in 1688, and came briefly to the 4th Earl of Bristol before passing to his great-grandson, the four-year old Charles Augustus Ellis in 1803.

A member of a leading Whig aristocratic family ( which had come to England with William of Orange in 1688 ), Augustus Keppel was the second son of Willem Anne van Keppel, 2nd Earl of Albemarle and Anne van Keppel, a daughter of the 1st Duke of Richmond ( himself an illegitimate son of King Charles II ).

He was born in Montpellier to a family ennobled in the sixteenth century as noblesse de robe, the eldest son of René Charles de Maupeou ( 1688 – 1775 ), who was president of the parlement of Paris from 1743 to 1757.

In 1688, eleven years before Charles Calvert was born, the Calvert family had lost their title to the Province of Maryland, following the events of the Glorious Revolution in England.

Münnich was born at Neuenhuntorf in the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg ( Denmark ) in the military family of Anton Günther Mönnich ( since 1688 von Münnich, an east-Frisian nobility ).

* It states as sources: " The earliest biography of the saint is preserved in an anonymous manuscript belonging to the Fatinelli family which was published at Ferrara in 1688 by Monsignor Fatinelli, ‘ Vita beatf Zitf virginis Lucensis ex vetustissimo codice manuscripto fideliter transumpta ’.

Owing primarily to the abundance of coal reserves, the quality of local sand, the near availability of Cheshire salt glass making is known to have been an ongoing industry in Sutton area since at least 1688 when the French John Leaf Snr is recorded paying the Eltonhead family £ 50 for a lease of 2½ acres of Sutton's Lower Hey.

He had financial problems and in 1688 he sold the rump of the family estates and Wallington Hall to Sir William Blackett for £ 4000 and an annuity of £ 2000 a year.

Andréossy continued to work at the canal and serve the family of Riquet until he died in Castelnaudary on 3 June 1688.

Some members of the family followed Major General Joachim Daniel von Jauch ( 1688 – 1754 ) as officers into the Saxon and Polish army, two of them, Franz Georg Jauch ( b. 1681 ) and Heinrich Georg Jauch ( b. 1709 ), serving as lieutenant colonels – colonels in relation to the other regiments ( Linienregimenter – in the Royal Guard of King Augustus II the Strong and King Augustus III of Poland.

It was known as Dowlish Farm by 1688, having been held by the Wake family from the 12th century ; it passed through marriage to the Speke family at the end of the 15th century ; they sold it in 1920.

Egidio Forcellini ( 1688 – 1768 ), Italian philologist, was born at Fener in the district of Treviso and belonged to a very poor family.

Antoine Furetière ( 1619 – 1688 ) is responsible for a longer comic novel which pokes fun at a bourgeois family, Le Roman bourgeois ( 1666 ).

He spent time while abroad in the Court of the Prince of Orange and subsequently his family line was back in Royal favour when the latter came to the throne of England in 1688.

The dead youth was identified as Robert E. Sims, 19, of 1688 Oak Knoll Cir., Aj.

Along with James II's perceived despotism, his religion was the main cause of the Glorious Revolution of 1688, and the previous linked religious and succession problems solved by the joint monarchy of William and Mary.

Owing to the refusal of the chief officers of the corporation to take the oath of allegiance to William III in 1688, the charter was annulled, and the town subsequently declined in prosperity.

English conservatism, which was called Toryism, emerged during the Restoration ( 1660 – 1688 ).

Whiggery had become a dominant ideology following the Glorious Revolution of 1688, and was associated with the defence of Parliament, upholding the rule of law and defending landed property.

Central to classical liberal ideology was their interpretation of John Locke's Second treatise of government and " A letter concerning toleration ", which had been written as a defence of the Glorious Revolution of 1688.

After the fall of James II of England, in 1688, Mather was among the leaders of the successful revolt against James's governor of the consolidated Dominion of New England, Sir Edmund Andros.

His enormous The History of England, tracing events from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688, was a best-seller in its day.

After the Glorious Revolution of 1688, the English Bill of Rights of 1689 was enacted, which codified certain rights and increased the influence of Parliament.

William III was crowned in 1688, and Defoe immediately became one of his close allies and a secret agent.

The theory of divine right was abandoned in England during the Glorious Revolution of 1688 – 89.

The charter came into effect on September 29, 1688, and a Corporation was established comprising a Mayor, 12 Aldermen, 60-100 Burgesses and sergeants.

Frederick William I () ( 14 August 1688 – 31 May 1740 ) was the King in Prussia and Elector of Brandenburg ( as Frederick William II ) from 1713 until his death.

The Glorious Revolution, also called the Revolution of 1688, was the overthrow of King James II of England ( James VII of Scotland and James II of Ireland ) by a union of English Parliamentarians with the Dutch stadtholder William III of Orange-Nassau ( William of Orange ).

The English Civil War ( also known as the Great Rebellion ) was still within living memory for most of the major English participants in the events of 1688, and for them, in comparison to that war ( or even the Monmouth Rebellion of 1685 ) the deaths in the conflict of 1688 were mercifully few.

The army in Ireland was purged of Protestants, who were replaced with Catholics, and by 1688 James had more than 34, 000 men under arms in his three kingdoms.

His father was a gardener, and he himself became first connected with the church in the humble position of a bellringer and verger in the Duomo of Piacenza ; he was twenty-one when the judge Ignazio Gardini, of Ravenna, was banished, and he followed Gardini to Ravenna where he met the vice-legate Giorgio Barni, who was made bishop of Piacenza in 1688 and appointed Alberoni chamberlain of his household.

James II of England | James VII of Scotland ( and II of England ), who was deposed in 1688.

Because of its strategic position, Harwich was the target for the invasion of Britain by William of Orange on November 11, 1688.

After James II was deposed in 1688 and replaced by his daughter Mary II, ruling jointly with her husband and first cousin ( James's nephew ) William III, the Stuarts lived in exile, occasionally attempting to regain the throne.

She was alive and unmarried in 1688.