1. It narrates the unconstitutional acts of James II.

2. The reign of James II offered the hope.

3. So the English politicians rejected James II, and appealed to a Protestant king, William of Orange, to invade and take the English throne.

4. This chapter goes down to the death of James II.

5. William III of England defeated the deposed James II and so ended Stuart Catholicism in England.

6. Locke provided English Whigs with rhetorical ammunition against the idea of the Divine Right of Kings in their revolt against James II.

7. In 1685 Charles II died and was succeeded by his brother James II.

8. It also gave William of Orange the opportunity to slip across the Channel and replace the discredited James II on the English throne.

9. Which brings us to London in the 1690s,(http://) just after the Glorious Revolution that drove James II from his throne in a coup led by Prince William of Orange.

10. When the Duchess of Cambridge has her baby, she should be grateful that she is not Mary of Modena, the wife of James II.

11. 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.