Donald E. Wilkes, Jr. Collection: English Legal History

Abdication Resolution of the Convention, approved by the Commons on Jan. 28, 1689 (with proposed amendments by the Lords)

Act of Settlement 1701

Act of Toleration 1689

An Act to Attaint James Duke of Monmouth 1685*

An Act to Attaint Sir John Fenwick*

Bill of Rights 1689 (An Act Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and Settling the Succession of the Crown)

• The Avalon Project (Yale Law School)
• British Library

The Convention and the Declaration of Rights

Crown and Parliament Recognition Act 1689

Declaration of Rights 1688/9

Declaration of Indulgence 1687

Declaration of the Prince of Orange 1688

The Parliament Act 1688

Treason Act 1695

* See in print: The Statutes at Large from the Magna Charta [to the End of the Eleventh Parliament of Great Britain, anno 1761 Continued to 1806], KD129 .G74 Basement

John Paul I reigned for only 33 days, August 26 - September 28, 1978

1. Stephen (II) - 4 days in March 752

2. Boniface VI - 15 Days in April 897

3. Celestine IV - 16 days (October 25 - November 10, 1241)

4. Theodore II - 20 days in November 897

5. Leo V - 30 days in August - November 897

Sources:

• J. Kelly, The Oxford Dictionary of the Popes (1986)
• L. Schrauwen, Le Mystere John-Paul I (1995)

Addendum 1: 1276, the Year of Four Popes

1. Gregory X - September 1, 1271 - January 10, 1276
2. Innocent V - January 21, 1276 - June 22, 1276
3. Hadrian V - July 11, 1276 - August 18, 1276
4. John XXI - September 8, 1276 - May 20, 1277

Addendum 2: The Only English Pope

Hadrian (or Adrian) IV (Nicholas Breakspear - December 4, 1154 - September 1, 1159

Materials used by Professor Donald E. Wilkes, Jr. in his English Legal History course.

• John Childs, 1688, 73 History 398-424 (1988).**
• Steven Pincus, 1688: A Fight for the Future, 59 History Today, October 2009, at 10-16.* 
• Henry Horwitz, 1689 (and All That), 6 Parliamentary History 23-32 (1987).
• Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy, The Invasions and the Projected Invasions of England (1852).
• Admiral Herbert's Letter to the Commanders of the Fleet
• George Saville, Marquis of Halifax, The Anatomy of an Equivalent (1706).
• Robert Beddard, Anti-Popery and the London Mob, 38 History Today, July 1988, at 36-39.*
• Michael John Sydenham, Anxieties of an Admiral: Lord Dartmouth and the Revolution of 1688, 12 History Today, October 1962, at 714-720.**
• The Banqueting House at Whitehall Palace
• Leonard W. Cowie, Banqueting House, Whitehall, 22 History Today, January 1972, at 25-31.**
• Richard L. Perry, Sources of Our Liberties: Documentary Origins of Individual Liberties in the United States Constitution and Bill of rights 222-250 (1959).*
• Chapter 16: Bill of Rights, 1689
• Robert Allen Rutland, The Birth of the Bill of Rights, 1776-1791 (1955).*
• J.P. Kenyon, The Birth of the Old Pretender, 13 History Today, June 1963, at 418-426 (1963).**
• David H. Hosford, Bishop Compton and the Revolution of 1688, 23 Journal of Ecclesiastical History 209-218 (1972).
• J.G. Muddiman, The Bloody Assizes (1929).*
• Friends' Historical Society of Philadelphia, 7 Bulletin of Friends' Historical Society of Philadelphia 91-97 (1927).
• J.N.P. Watson, Circumstantial Evidence on Allegations That Charles II Married Lucy Barlow, in Captain-General and the Rebel Chief: The Life of James Duke of Monmouth app. A at 275-277 (1979).**
• The Capture of Judge Jeffreys
• Donald E. Wilkes, Jr., The Case of the Seven Bishops
• David Stevenson, The Century of the Three Kingdoms, 36 History Today, March 1985, at 28-33 (1985).*
• Chronology of the Bloody Assizes
• Donald E. Wilkes, Jr., Chronology of the Reign of King James II (1685-88) and the Glorious Revolution (1688-89)
• J.L. Anderson, Climatic Change, Sea-Power and Historical Discontinuity: The Spanish Armada and the Glorious Revolution of 1688, 5 The Great Circle 13 (1983).*
• J.P. Kenyon, The Commission for Ecclesiastical Causes 1686-1688: A Reconsideration, 34 The Historical Journal 727-736 (1991).*
• Ian K. Steele, Communicating an English Revolution to the Colonies, 24 Journal of British Studies 333-357 (1985).*
• Joshua Barnes, A Pindarick Congratulatory Poem to the Right Honourable George, Lord Jeffreys (1685).*
• Howard Nenner, Constitutinal Uncertainty and the Declaration of Rights, in After the Reformation: Essays in Honor of J. H. Hexter 291-308 (Barbara C. Malament ed., 1980).**
• Bernard Norling, Contemporary English Catholics and the Policies of James II, 37 Mid-America: An Historical Review 215-228 (1955).
• Donald E. Wilkes, Jr., Criminal Procedure Chrestomathy (2007).
• Philip Zaleski, Daniel Defoe: The Life and Strange, Surprising Adventures, 94 First Things 55-58 (1999).*
• David Williamson, Debrett's Kings and Queens of Britain 132-152 (1986).**
• The House of Stuart
• Lois G. Schwoerer, The Declaration of Rights, 1689, (1981).**
• P.C. Vellacott, The Diary of a County Genetleman in 1688, 2 Cambridge Historical Journal 48-62 (1926).*
• Zechariah Chafee, Jr., Documents on Fundamental Human Rights: The Anglo-American Tradition (1951-52).**
• J.H. Plumb, The Elections to the Convention Parliament of 1689, 5 Cambridge Historical Journal 235-254 (1937).*
• Helle Bering-Jensen, Elevating the Glorious Revolution, Insight on the News 51, May 15, 1989.
• Leonard W. Levy, Emergence of a Free Press (1985).**
• Robin D. Gwynn, England's First Refugees, 35 History Today, May 1985, at 22-28.*
• Lois G. Schwoerer, The English Bill of Rights, 1689: A Perspective on Liberty, in Three Beginnings: Revolution, Rights, and the Liberal State 93-114 (Stephen F. Englehart & John Allphin Moore, eds. 1994).**
• Richard E. Boyer, English Declarations of Indulgence: 1687 and 1688, 50 The Catholic Historical Review 332-371 (1964).*
• Jack A. Goldstone, Europe's Peculiar Path: Would the World be "Modern" if William III's Invasion of England in 1688 Had Failed?, in Unmaking the West: "What-if" Scenarios That Rewrite World History 168-196 (Philip E. Tetlock, Richard Ned Lebow, & Geoffrey Parker, eds. 2006).**
• A True and Exact Relation of the Prince of Orange: His Publick Entrance into Exeter (1688).*
• E.S. de Beer, Executions Following the "Bloody Assize", 4 Historical Research, June 1926, at 36-39 (1926).**
• Gilbert Burnet, The Expedition of His Highness, the Prince of Orange, for England (1688).*
• Donald E. Wilkes, The Five Princes of Orange. 
• John Childs, 'For God and for Honour' : Marshal Schomberg, 38 History Today, July 1988, at 46-52.*  
• Andrew Higgins, France Marks 300th Anniversary of Religious Persecution, Reuters North European Service, June 16, 1985. 
• Sir Charles Firth, A Commentary on Macaulay's History of England 334-368 (2nd ed. 1964).
• Chapter XIV: Macaulay's Character of William III 
• Godden v. Hales, (1686) 89 Eng. Rep. 1050 (K.B.); 2 Show. K.B. 475.*
• For alternative publications of the case, see The Jacobite Heritage.  
• George C. Kohn, War of the Grand Alliance, in Dictionary of Wars 186 (1986).** 
• S. Lindgren & J. Neumann, Great Historical Events That Were Significantly Affected by the Weather: 7, "Protestant Wind"--"Popish Wind": The Revolution of 1688 in England, 66 Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 634 (1985).  
• E.S. de Beer, The Great Seal of James II: A Reply to Sir Hilary Jenkinson, 42 The Antiquaries Journal 81, 81-90 (1962).**
• Donald E. Wilkes, Jr., The Greatest Scientific Publications of All Time
• Lord Macaulay, The History of England (Hugh Trevor-Roper ed., 1979).**   
• Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James II
• Volume I
• Volume II
• R.W.K. Hinton, History Yesterday: Five Points About Whig History, 9 History Today 720-728 (1959).* 
• Louis O'Brien, The Huguenot Policy of Louis XIV and Pope Innocent XI, 17 The Catholic Historical Review 29-42 (1931).*
• Donald E. Wilkes, Jr., The Immortal Seven: The Seven Men Who Invited William of Orange to Invade England in Their Letter of June 30, 1688.
• Donald E. Wilkes, Jr., Inimicus Libertatis: Chief Justice Rehnquist's Majority or Plurality Opinions in the Field of Criminal Procedure.**
• Sir Herbert W. Richmond, Invasion in the Seventeenth Century, in The Invasion of Britain: An Account of Plans, Attempts, and Counter-Measures from 1586-1918 15-22 (1941).**  
• George Hilton Jones, The Irish Fright of 1688: Real and Imagined Massacre, 55 Historical Research, November 1982, at 148-153.**
• Maurice Ashley, Is There a Case for James II?, 13 History Today, May 1963, at 347-352).**
• James II and the Fellows of Magdalen.  
• Alfred F. Havighurst, James II and the Twelve Men in Scarlet, 69 Law Quarterly Review 552-546 (1953).** 
• Robin D. Gwynn, James II in Light of His Treatment of Huguenot Refugees in England, 1685-1686, 92 The English Historical Review 820-833 (1977).*    
• John Callow, James II: The Triumph and the Tragedy (2005). 
• Robin Clifton, James II's Two Rebellions, 38 History Today July 1988, at 23-29.
• J.R. Jones, James II's Whig Collaborators, 3 The Historical Journal 65-73 (1960).*
• Clyve Jones, Journal of the Voyage of William of Orange from Holland to Torbay, 1688, 51 Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research 15-18 (1973).** 
• Alfred F. Havighurst, The Judiciary and Politics in the Reign of Charles II, 66 Law Quarterly Review 62-78, 229-252 (1950).** 
• The King is Dead, Times (London), Feb. 6, 2002, available at LexisNexis. *
• Voltaire, The Age of Louis XIV 186-202 (R. Griffith ed., 1779).
• Chapter XV: King James dethroned by his Son-in-Law, William III, and protected by Louis XIV
• Maurice Ashley, King James II and the Revolution of 1688: Some Reflections and Historiography, in Historical Essays, 1600-1750: Presented to David Ogg 185-202 (H. E. Bell & R. L. Ollard eds., 1964).**
• Donald E. Wilkes, Jr., Landmarks in the Development of Freedom in England.   
• Robin Clifton, The Last Popular Rebellion: The Western Rising of 1685 (1984).**
• The Last Will and Testament of Father Peters.*
• Edward Corp, The Last Years of James II: 1690-1701, 51 History Today, Sept. 2001, at 19-25.*  
• John Morrill, The Later Stuarts: A Glorious Restoration?, 38 History Today, July 1988, at 8-16.*
• Charles F. Mullett, The Legal Position of English Protestant Dissenters, 1689-1767, 23 Virginia Law Review 389-418 (1937).*
• Sir John Dalrymple, Letter of Invitation to William of Orange, 1688, in 8 English Historical Documents 120-122 (David C. Douglas ed., 1953).**
• George Savile Halifax, A Letter to a Dissenter, Upon Occasion of His Majesties Late and Gracious Declaration of Indulgence, in The Complete Works of George Savile: Marquess of Halifax 128-141 (Walter Raleigh ed., 1912). 
• Letter from Princess Anne of Denmark to the Queen (Nov. 25/26, 1688).
• Donald R. McClarey, Lillibulero, The American Catholic (Apr. 9, 2011).
• John Hartley, A Long Way From Home: Accession of Elizabeth II, Times (London), Feb. 6, 2002.* 
• Roger Mettam, Louis XIV and the Huguenots, 35 History Today, May 1985, at 15-21.**
• Ragnhild Hatton, Louis XIV and the Revocation of Nantes, 24 Proceedings of the Huguenot Society of London 296-302 (1986).
• K. P. D. E., Lucy Barlow or Walters, s4-IV Notes and Queries 271 (1869).**
• John Clive, Macaulay, History and the Historians, 9 History Today, December 1959, at 830-836 (1959).* 
• John Callow, The Making of King James II: The Formative Years of a Fallen King (2000)**
• Bruce Redford, Man's Life Story an Exhaustive Chain of Wonders, Washington Times (DC), Sept. 18, 1989, at E7, available at 1989 WLNR 65993.*
• Marquess of Cambridge, The March of William of Orange from Torbay to London, 1688, 44 Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research 152-174 (1966).
• William L. Sachse, Mass Movement Behind the Revolution, in The Revolution of 1688 and the Birth of the English Political Nation 26-41 (Gerald M. Straka ed., 1973).** 
• Donald E. Wilkes, Jr., Materials on the English, Colonial, and State Antecedents of the Federal Bill of Rights (1997).**
• David G. Chandler, The Mystery of the Black Box, in Sedgemoore 1685: An Account and an Anthology app. D at 190-191 (1985).**
• J.R. Tanner, Naval Preparations of James II in 1688, 8 The English Historical Review 272-283 (1893).*
• Donald E. Wilkes, Jr., Nemo Tenetur Prodere Seipsum: The Origins and Historical Development of the Privilege Against Self-Incrimination (1997).** 
• Peter Barber, Note on Medal Commemorating the Glorious Revolution and the Toleration Act, in From Persecution to Toleration: The Glorious Revolution and Religion in England app i at 409-410 (Ole Peter Grell, Jonathan I. Israel & Nicholas Tyacke ed., 1991).**
• W.A. Speck, The Orangist Conspiracy Against James II, 30 The Historical Journal 453-462 (1987).*
• Order in Council Requiring James II's Declaration, in 8 English Historical Documents 83 (David C. Douglas ed., 1953).**
• Leonard W. Levy, Origins of the Fifth Amendment: The Right Against Self-Incrimination (1968).**
• Neil Kirk, Parliament and the Glorious Revolution (1988).**
• Ann Treneman, Periwigs, Lords and Ladies... So Why No Queen?, Times (London), Nov. 9, 2006.*
• Shelby T. McCoy, Persecution of the Huguenots in the 18th Century, 20 Church History, Sept. 1951, at 56-79.*
• Petition of the Seven Bishops, 1688, in 8 English Historical Documents 84 (David C. Douglas ed., 1953).**
• Gary S. De Krey, Political Radicalism in London After the Glorious Revolution, 55 The Journal of Modern History 585-617 (1983).*
• D. L. Savory, Pope Innocent XI and the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, 16 Proceedings of the Huguenot Society of London 394-398 (1937-1941)***
• John Pollock, Table of Some Events Occurring in the History of the Popish Plot, in The Popish Plot: A Study in the Reign of Charles II, xiii-xix (1903).
• J.G. Alger, The Posthumous Vicissitudes of James the Second, 25 The Nineteenth Century 104-109 (1889).
• D. A. Rubini, The Precarious Independence of the Judiciary, 1688-1701, 83 Law Quarterly Review 343-345 (1967).**
• Elizabeth Cook, The Present Legal Status of the English Bill of Rights.
• George Malcolm Thomson, The Prime Ministers: From Robert Walpole to Margaret Thatcher 77-80 (1981).**
• Chapter XVII: Spencer Perceval
• J. R. Jones, Principal Personages of the Glorious Revolution. 
• Proclamation of the Duke of Monmouth on Taking the Title of King, 1685, in 8 English Historical Documents 119-120 (David C. Douglas ed., 1953).**
• Clyve Jones, The Protestant Wind of 1688: Myth and Reality, 3 European Studies Review 201-222 (1973).** 
• Tessa Murdoch, The Quiet Conquest: The Huguenots 1685-1985, 35 History Today, May 1985, at 29-33.*
• Donald E. Wilkes, Jr., Readings on Military and Naval Aspects of the Glorious Revolution.
• Donald E. Wilkes, Jr., Readings on the Popish Plot.
• Donald E. Wilkes, Jr., Readings on the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes.
• Charles F. Mullet, Religion, Politics, and Oaths in the Glorious Revolution, 10 The Review of Politics 462-474 (1948).*
• Bill Speck, Religion's Role in the Glorious Revolution, 38 History Today, July 1988, at 30-35.*
• Tim Harris, Reluctant Revolutionaries? The Scots and the Revolution of 1688-89, in Politics and the Political Imaginiation in Later Stuart Britain 97-117 (Lois Green Schwoerer & Howard Nenner eds., 1997).**
• Menna Prestwich, The Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, 73 History 63-73 (1988).**
• E. S. de Beer, The Revocation of the Edict of Nantes and English Public Opinion, 18 Proceedings of the Huguenot Society of London 292-310 (1952).***
• Gerald M. Straka, The Revolution of 1688 and the Birth of the English Political Nation (2nd ed. 1973).**
• A. A. Mitchell, The Revolution of 1688 and the Flight of James II, 15 History Today, July 1965, at 496-504.**
• W. A. Speck, The Revolution of 1688 in the North of England, 25 Northern History 188-204 (1989).*
• Sir Edward Parry, The Bloody Assize 265-280 (1929).**
• Chapter XX: Rex v. Elizabeth Gaunt and Others
• Donald E. Wilkes, Jr., The Right of Everyman: Writs of Assistance in the Thirteen American Colonies and the Origins and Development of the Fourth Amendment (1997).**
• Andrew Barclay, The Rise of Edward Coleman, 42 The Historical Journal 109-131 (1999).*
• Charles D. Tarlton, 'The Rulers Now on Earth': Locke's Two Treatises and the Revolution of 1688, 28 The Historical Journal 279-298 (1985).*
• David Smurthwaite, Battlefields of Britain: The Complete Illustrated Guide 188-191 (1984).**
• Sedgemoor, 6 July 1685.  
• G. V. Bennett, The Seven Bishops: A Reconsideration, in Religious Motivtion: Biographical and Sociological Problems for the Church Historian 267-287 (1978). 
• Roger Thomas, Seven Bishops and Their Petition, 18 May 1688, 12 The Journal of Ecclesiastical History 56-70 (1961).**
• Mary K. Geiter, Sir Reresby and the Glorious Revolution, 25 Northern History 174-187 (1989).*
• George C. Kohn, War of the Spanish Succession, in Dictionary of Wars 446 (1986).**
• Speech of James II in Support of the Standing Army , in 8 English Historical Documents 81-82 (David C. Douglas ed., 1953).**
•  Samuel Rezneck, The Statute of 1696: A Pioneer Measure in the Reform of Judicial Procedure in England, 2 The Journal of Modern History 5-26 (1930).*
• Richard B. Barlow, The Struggle for Religious Toleration in England, 1685-1719, 22 The Historian 361-376 (1960).**
• J.P. Kenyon, The Stuarts, in Great Dynasties 125-137 (Carol Appleyard et al. trans., Mayflower Books 1979)(1976).**
• J. P. Kenyon, The Stuart Constitution 1603-1688, 401-413 (1966).**
• Chapter 11, part III: The Suspending and Dispensing Powers
• George C. Kohn, The Three Anglo-Dutch Wars, in Dictionary of Wars 146-147 (1986).**
• Alan Marshall, To Make a Martyr: The Popish Plot and Protestant Propaganda, 47 History Today, March 1997, at 39-45.*
• Lois G. Schwoerer, The Transformation of the 1689 Convention into a Parliament, 3 Parliamentary History 57-76 (1984).**
• George Williams Keeton, Trials for Treason 77-134 (1959).** 
• C. G. L. Du Cann, Trial of Lady Alice Lisle in English Treason Trials (1964).**
• W. K. Stewart, The Trial of the Seven Bishops, 55 California State Bar Journal 70-75 (1980).**
• Donald E. Wilkes, Jr., The Trial of the Seven Bishops: The Greatest Common Law Trial
• Robert A. Beddard, Two Letters From the Tower, 1688, 31 Notes and Queries 347-352 (1984).**
• Maureen Waller, Ungrateful Daughters: The Stuart Princesses Who Stole Their Father's Crown (2002).**
• Robin Eagles, Unnatural Allies? The Oxfordshire Elite from the Exclusion Crisis to the Overthrow of James II, 26 Parliamentary History 346-365 (2007).*
• Melinda Zook, Violence, Martyrdom, and Radical Politics: Rethinking the Glorious Revolution, in Politics and the Political Imaginiation in Later Stuart Britain 75-95 (Lois Green Schwoerer & Howard Nenner eds., 1997).** 
• Robert A. Beddard, Violent Party: The Guildhall Revolutionaries and the Growth of Opposition to James II, 3 Guildhall Miscellany 120-136 (1970). 
• Hilary Jenkinson, What Happened to the Great Seal of James II?, 23 The Antiquaries Journal 1 (1943).**
• James R. Hertzler, Who Dubbed it "The Glorious Revolution?", 19 Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies 579-585 (1987).*
• The Will of King James II
• J. P. Kenyon, William III: Part I, 9 History Today, 581-588 (1959).**
• J. P. Kenyon, William III: Part II, 9 History Today, 664-671 (1959).**
• Tony Claydon, William III's Declaration of Reasons and the Glorious Revolution, 39 The Historical Journal 87-108 (1996).*
• K. Merle Chacksfield, The Declaration of the Nobility, Gentry and Commonalty in Glorious Revolution, 1688 (1988).
  
• Did Nostradamus Predict the Glorious Revolution?
  
• Edgar Leoni, Nostradamus and His Prophecies 246-248 (1961)
  
• Jean-Charles de Fontbrune, Nostradamus: Countdown to Apocalypse 42-43 (1983)
  
• David Ovason, The Secrets of Nostradamus: A Radical New Interpretation of the Master's Prophecies (2001)
  
• Heads of Grievances (The Revolution Settlement)
• Elizabeth Cook, The Present Legal Status of the English Bill of Rights (1984)
• J.R. Jones, Principal Personages in The Revolution of 1688 in England (1972)
  
• Readings compiled by Professor Wilkes
  
• Military and Naval Aspects of the Glorious Revolution
  
• The Popish Plot
  
• The Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685)
  

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