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James II, (1633-1701), King of Great Britain and Ireland

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Alternative name(s):
  • King James VII of Scotland (Also known as)
Surname: James II
Gender: Male
Date: 1633-1701
Title: King of Great Britain and Ireland
Biography: ODNB link for James, II (1633-1701) King of Great Britain and Ireland
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/P156557 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P15316 )
Online related resources Bibliography of British and Irish History link for II James
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
1678-1716: corresp and papers
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
2
misc corresp
Royal Archives
See HMC Stuart MSS I
3
c1689-1702: papers
Royal Archives
NRA 43349 Windsor
4
misc letters and papers
British Library, Manuscript Collections
5
letters
British Library, Manuscript Collections
6
1651-1683: letters as Duke of York
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
See Bodleian Library Record Vol.XV No.3 (Oct 1995), pp.212-4
7
literary papers
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
8
household book, corresp
Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives
9
1671: household accounts
Warwickshire County Record Office
NRA 741 Throckmorton

See HMC Principal family and estate collections L-W, 1999 [103a]
10
book of devotions
Trinity College Dublin
11
1679-1689: copies of letters (105) to Lord Dartmouth
Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service: Staffordshire County Record Office
NRA 5197 Legge
12
1679-1689: letters to Lord Dartmouth
Yale University Libraries: Beinecke Library
NRA 18661 Osborn coll
13
1679-1689: letters (11) to the Duke of Gordon
West Sussex Record Office
NRA 850 Gordon Lennox
14
misc letters to the Hastings family
Huntington Library
NRA 10029 Hastings
15
1673-1680: letters to Duke of Lauderdale
British Library, Manuscript Collections
16
1682-1685: Letters (112) to the Duke of Queensbury
Collection held privately: enquiries to National Register of Archives for Scotland
NRA 6184 Montagu-Douglas-Scot

See HMC [44] Drumlanrig
17
1678-1679: letters (54) to William of Orange
British Library, Manuscript Collections
See Annual Return 2008
18
1633-1701: 'Life of James the Second, King of England etc collected out of memoires writt in his own hand'
Aberdeen University, Special Collections Centre: Scottish Catholic Archives, Historic Archives
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spouse
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