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JAMES II Summons signed ("James R" at head"), to Henry Earl of Clarendon, Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal, requiring him to attend his coronation, Whitehall, 23 March 1684/5
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JAMES II
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ʻTHE SOLEMNITY OF OUR ROYALL CORONATION' – JAMES II SUMMONS HIS BROTHER-IN-LAW TO HIS CORONATION; the document written on paper watermarked with the arms of England flanked by the lion and unicorn standing on a cartouche bearing the royal motto ʻDieu et mon Droit', and sealed with a fine papered impression of the royal arms as borne by both Charles II and James II.
Henry, second Earl of Clarendon, was brother of James's first wife, Anne Hyde (and so uncle of James's daughters Mary and Anne, the future Queens of England). He and his brother, Laurence, Earl of Rochester, were both staunch Anglicans and when James succeeded to the throne on the death of his brother Charles II on 6 February 1684/5, he lost no time in appointing them Lord Privy Seal and Lord Treasurer respectively; with Clarendon being made Lord Lieutenant of Ireland that September. However within a few years the influence of both brothers waned as Tyrconnell came into the ascendant in Ireland and Sunderland in England – the eclipse of the Hyde brothers being generally seen as the turning-point in James's reign, when the balance of power shifted from the Anglicans to the Catholics.





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