On 11 December 1695, Bellomont, who was now governing New York, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire, asked the " trusty and well beloved Captain Kidd " to attack Thomas Tew, John Ireland, Thomas Wake, William Maze, and all others who associated themselves with pirates, along with any enemy French ships.

* 1695 – William Borlase, English naturalist ( d. 1772 )

Thus Richard Blackmore's epics Prince Arthur ( 1695 ) and King Arthur ( 1697 ) feature Arthur as an allegory for the struggles of William III against James II.

* August 31 – William Borlase, English naturalist ( b. 1695 )

* Richard Hampden ( 1631 – 1695 ), English Whig politician, Privy Counsellor, and Chancellor of the Exchequer for William III of England

The cooperative had the good luck to open in 1695 with the première of William Congreve's famous Love For Love and the skill to make it a huge box-office success.

* William Douglas, 1st Duke of Queensberry ( 1637 – 1695 ), Scottish politician

However, the lack of a fashionable and formal suite of state apartments coupled with the Brownlows ' lack of social credentials did not prevent a visit from King William III to the newly completed house in 1695.

Barry was one of the original patent-holders of the actors ' company, which opened at Lincoln's Inn Fields with the smash hit of William Congreve's Love For Love in 1695 and continued to successfully challenge Rich's United Company.

French control was short-lived, as William III of Orange-Nassau captured Namur only three years later in 1695 during the War of the Grand Alliance.

On 4 November 1695 the castle was in sufficient state to host a visit by King William III.

Governor Sir William Phips ( 1651 – 1695 )

By his first wife he had nine children ( three sons and six daughters ) one of whom, Richard ( 1631 – 1695 ) was chancellor of the exchequer in William III's reign ; from two of his daughters are descended the families of Trevor Hampden and Hobart-Hampden, the descent in the male line becoming apparently extinct in 1754 in the person of John Hampden.

In 1695 he married Honora de Burke, the daughter of William Burke, 7th Earl of Clanricarde and the widow of the 1st Earl of Lucan, who died in 1698.

* William Douglas, 3rd Earl of Queensberry ( 1637 – 1695 ) ( became Marquess of Queensberry in 1682, and Duke of Queensberry in 1684 )

* William Douglas, 1st Duke of Queensberry ( 1637 – 1695 )

* Sir William Trumbull: 3 May 1695 – 2 December 1697

In 1695, when François Henri de Montmorency-Bouteville, duc de Luxembourg died, he obtained the command of the army in Flanders ( see War of the Grand Alliance ); William III found him a far easier opponent than the " little hunchback " ( the duc de Luxembourg ).

Somers was one of the Lords Justices who William appointed to govern whilst he was abroad in 1695.

When William left in May 1695 to take command of the army in the Netherlands, Somers was made one of the seven lords-justices to whom the administration of the kingdom during his absence was entrusted ; and he was instrumental in bringing about a reconciliation between William and the Princess Anne.

* March 1695: William Lowndes

He had adopted the additional surname Wentworth when he inherited the estate of his maternal uncle, William Wentworth, 2nd Earl of Strafford, in 1695.

It was laid out and renamed Nassau in 1695 by Nicholas Trott, the most successful Lord Proprietor, in honour of the Prince of Orange-Nassau who became William III of Great Britain.

In 1695, Sophia Charlotte of Hanover received Lietzow from her husband, Elector Frederick III of Brandenburg, in exchange for her estates in Caputh and Langerwisch near Potsdam.

François de Harlay de Champvallon ( François III de Harlay ; 14 August 1625 – 6 August 1695 ) was the fifth archbishop of Paris.

William also assigned Blackmore the task of writing the official treatment of the plot of Sir George Barclay, who sought to kill William ( not appearing until 1723, as A true and impartial history of the conspiracy against the person and government of King William III, of glorious memory, in the year 1695 ).

This practice was ended by the Treason Act 1695, passed during the reign of King William III.

* Galhienus Redivivus ( an attack on William III, 1695 )

Hampton Court Maze is a hedge maze planted some time between 1689 and 1695 by George London and Henry Wise for William III of Orange at Hampton Court Palace.

Created a baronet in 1688 by King James II, in 1691 he became Commissioner of Excise under King William III, and was Member of Parliament for Colchester from 1695 until 1698.

* Louise Anne de Bourbon ( 1695 – 1758 ), fourth child of Louis III, Prince of Condé, was given the style of Mademoiselle as her cousin Louis d ' Orléans had no daughter.

It was built by the Brandenburg Elector Frederick III between 1695 and 1730 in the baroque style, to be used as an artillery arsenal for the display of cannons from Brandenburg and Prussia.

Elizabeth Hamilton, Countess of Orkney ( 1657 – 19 April 1733 ), was the acknowledged mistress of William III & II, King of England and Scotland, from 1680 until 1695.

Lady Isle is probably first mentioned in the title of William Fullarton of that Ilk, in his Charter under the Great Seal by William III, dated 9 December 1695, which included " the five pound land of Aldtoun containing the little isle, opposite the lands of Corsbie, called the Lady-isl ".

* Emetullah Rabia Gülnûş Sultan ( 1642 – 1715 ) was the wife of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed IV and Valide Sultan to their sons Mustafa II and Ahmed III ( 1695 – 1715 ).

Based on the year, the Sultan was either Mustafa II ( reigned 1695 – 1703 ) or Ahmed III ( reigned 1703 – 1730 ).

By 1695 he was back in England, now formally using the name " Defoe ", and serving as a " commissioner of the glass duty ", responsible for collecting taxes on bottles.

Among the early writings of Abbadie were four Sermons sur divers Textes de l ' Ecriture, 1680 ; Réflexions sur la Présence réelle du Corps de Jésus-Christ dans l ' Eucharistie, 1685 ; and two highly adulatory addresses on persons in high stations, entitled respectively Panégyrique de Monseigneur l ' Electeur de Brandebourg, 1684 ; and Panégyrique de Marie Stuart, Reine d ' Angleterre, d ' Ecosse, de France, et d ' Irlande, de glorieuse et immortelle mémoire, décédée à Kensington le 28 décembre 1694, 1695, also published in England as A Panegyric on our late Sovereign Lady, 1695.

For a period of over 150 years from 1695 a window tax was levied in England, with the result that one can still see listed buildings with windows bricked up in order to save their owners money.

Gloucester Township, which took its name from the cathedral city of Gloucester on the banks of the River Severn in England, was further subdivided into four smaller townships, and on June 1, 1695, became one of the first New Jersey municipalities to incorporate.

Because of his support for his father and service in the French army against England, he was attainted in 1695, and his British peerages forfeit.

The subsidiary titles of the Duke of Bedford, all in the Peerage of England, are: Marquess of Tavistock ( created 1694 ), Earl of Bedford ( 1550 ), Baron Russell, of Cheneys ( 1539 ), Baron Russell of Thornhaugh in the County of Northampton ( 1603 ), and Baron Howland, of Streatham in the County of Surrey ( 1695 ) ( and possibly the Barony of Bedford, which was merged into it in 1138, 1366 or 1414 ).

In England, he was tried for treason and outlawed on 23 July 1694, and attainted on 2 July 1695.

Category: 1695 establishments in England

In November, 1695 he wrote and read Memorial Concerning the Coyn of England to the Privy Council.

In 1695 during colonial times Isabella sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in search for a warm comfortable home in New England, but the tight-knit townsfolk didn ’ t trust outsiders and isolated her from the town.

Paul Lafranchini ( 1695 – 1776 ) worked for James Gibbs in England.

In 1695 Stoughton protested the actions of French privateers operating from Acadia, who were wreaking havoc in the New England fishing and merchant fleets.

In those legal systems where it is allowed, rather than swearing oaths in a court of law Friends will prefer to affirm — in England this has been the case since 1695.

He was a descendant of Richard Dana, progenitor of most of the Danas in the United States, who emigrated there from England, settled in Cambridge in 1640, and died there about 1695.

In May 1695, Lord Elgin was accused of having conspired to plan the restoration of King James II and in February 1696 he was imprisoned in the Tower of London, but admitted to bail a year later and allowed to leave England for Brussels, where he died and was buried.