It has been argued that James's overthrow began modern English parliamentary democracy: the Bill of Rights of 1689 has become one of the most important documents in the political history of Britain and never since has the monarch held absolute power.

James's support began to dissolve almost immediately upon William's arrival ; Protestant officers defected from the English army ( the most notable of whom was Lord Churchill of Eyemouth, James's most able commander ), and influential noblemen across the country declared their support for the invader.

James II's subordinate commanders were Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, who was Lord Deputy of Ireland and James's most powerful supporter in Ireland ; and the French general Lauzun.

The use of an observer's consciousness and the sense of the action as a performance became most marked in James's fiction in and after the 1890s.

Although the book shows some signs of immaturity — this was James's first serious attempt at a full-length novel — it has attracted favourable comment due to the vivid realisation of the three major characters: Roderick Hudson, superbly gifted but unstable and unreliable ; Rowland Mallet, Roderick's limited but much more mature friend and patron ; and Christina Light, one of James's most enchanting and maddening femmes fatale.

The third period of James's career reached its most significant achievement in three novels published just after the turn of the century.

" The Aspern Papers " ( 1888 ) is one of James's best-known and most acclaimed longer tales.

Perhaps the most prominent examples of James's legacy in recent years have been the film versions of several of his novels and stories.

The author of 56 books, novels and short stories, she was also part owner and editor of the St. James's Magazine, one of the most prestigious literary magazines of the 1860s.

But James's patronage of lands, titles and office to allies of the Douglases saw their erstwhile allies begin to change sides, most importantly the Earl of Crawford after the Battle of Brechin, and in May 1455 James struck a decisive blow against the Douglases, and they were finally defeated at the Battle of Arkinholm.

Having spent most of 1942 in the Reserve he managed to direct Lifeline ( Norman Armstrong ) starring Frank Pettingell at the Duchess Theatre in July ; and The Duke in Darkness ( Patrick Hamilton ) starring Leslie Banks at the St James's Theatre in October, also taking the role of Gribaux.

James's music & style still today has immense influence upon today's modern blues icons, including the young Derek Trucks of the Allman Brothers and The Derek Trucks Band, who has attributed James as his most predominant influence, and inspiration.

It has been argued that James's overthrow began modern English parliamentary democracy: never since has the monarch held absolute power, and the Bill of Rights 1689 has become one of the most important documents in the political history of Britain.

* Henry James's most famous governess is the over-sensitive and perhaps hysterical protagonist in The Turn of the Screw.

Under James's son, William, the business flourished, but most of the profits were ploughed back into employee welfare, housing and education.

In his first year, 1898-1899, he published Henry James's In the Cage ; Leslie Stephen's English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century ; Jocelyn by John Sinjohn, a nom-de-plume of John Galsworthy ; a translation of August Strindberg's Der Vater ; and Mother Goose in Prose, the first children's book by L. Frank Baum and the first book illustrated by Maxfield Parrish ( Baum's most famous work The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was published in Chicago just a year later ).

Morton, who was elected to Mar's office, proved in many ways the most effective of James's regents, but he made enemies by his rapacity.

Several people, most notably Agnes Sampson, were convicted of using witchcraft to send storms against James's ship.

He went to King James's Grammar School in Almondbury and became a journalist, most notably in Edinburgh where he first encountered whisky.

* The original main line to Grand Canal Harbour near St. James's Gate in Dublin City ( most of the route is now used by the red line Luas ).

During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, St Pancras was famous for its cemeteries, for as well as the graveyard of Old St Pancras Church, it also contained the cemeteries of St James's Church, Piccadilly, St Giles in the Fields, St Andrew, Holborn, St. George's Church, Bloomsbury, and St George the Martyr, Holborn.

* St. James's Gate Brewery, located in Dublin, famous for the production of Guinness and the Guinness Storehouse attraction

One of the most famous London hatters is James Lock & Co of St James's Street.

Adjoining St James's Street is Jermyn Street, famous for its many tailors.

St James's is also famous for being home to some of the most famous cigar retailers in London.

He was, however, no supporter of the House of Orange, advocated a regency in James's name, and was one of the few who in the House of Commons opposed the famous vote that James had broken the contract between king and people and left the throne vacant.

She is said to have been the inspiration for James's famous long poem, The Kingis Quair, written in his captivity after he saw her from his window in the garden.

White's Club, in St. James's Street, London features a famous bow window.

Among his most famous works are: Tormenta en el Astillero ( Musée du Luxembourg, Paris ), Puente de la Boca ( St. James's Palace, London ) and Crepúsculo en el astillero ( Museo de Bellas Artes de la Boca Quinquela Martín, Buenos Aires ).

The castle is one of the settings in Henry James's novella Daisy Miller ( 1878 ).

For example, if James's will states that he is leaving his $ 500, 000 yacht to his brother Mike, the yacht would be a specific devise.

For example, if James's will states that he is leaving $ 500, 000 to his son Sam then the money would be a general devise.

" James's reading of The True Law of Free Monarchies allowed that "... a good king will frame all his actions to be according to the law, yet is he not bound thereto but of his good will ..." James also had printed his Defense of the Right of Kings in the face of English theories of inalienable popular and clerical rights.

King James's Bible is used as the name for the 1611 translation ( on a par with the " Genevan Bible " or the " Rhemish Testament ") in Charles Butler's Horae Biblicae ( first published 1797 ).

As the play appears to celebrate King James's ancestors and the Stuart accession to the throne in 1603 ( James believed himself to be descended from Banquo ), scholars say that the play is unlikely to have been composed earlier than 1603 and suggest that the parade of eight kings — which the witches show Macbeth in a vision in Act IV — is a compliment to King James.

He may also have intended an elaborate compliment to James's belief in the divine right of kings, although this hypothesis, outlined at greatest length by Henry N. Paul, is not universally accepted.

Melilla's Capilla de Santiago or James's Chapel, by the city walls, is the only genuine Gothic architecture in Africa.

:" James's view is that the raw material out of which the world is built up is not of two sorts, one matter and the other mind, but that it is arranged in different patterns by its inter-relations, and that some arrangements may be called mental, while others may be called physical ".

Immediately opposite the gates to St. James's Palace, Sam Houston's original Embassy of the Republic of Texas to the Court of St. James's is now a hat shop, but is clearly marked with a large plaque and a nearby restaurant is called Texas Embassy.

William James's version of pragmatic theory, while complex, is often summarized by his statement that " the ' true ' is only the expedient in our way of thinking, just as the ' right ' is only the expedient in our way of behaving.

First performed on 14 February 1895 at St. James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personae in order to escape burdensome social obligations.

* February 7 – Elizabeth II is proclaimed Queen of the United Kingdom ( and her five other Commonwealth realms ) at St. James's Palace, London, England.

This is considered to be the first robbery committed by Jesse James and his gang, although James's role is disputed.