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The Kingdom of William and Mary
William III was contemptuous of England and all English. He humiliated the English army and navy by entrusting the most important commands to Dutchmen. The Parliamentarians who had made the Revolution possible remained in power but were left in no doubt of William's contempt of them.
Mary settled quickly, and remorselessly, into her father's court and palace. William was busy with plans for his war with France.
Then the Jacobites invaded.
William Sancroft |
WILLIAM SANCROFT (1617-1693)- Archbishop of Canterbury 1678-1689 and earlier, dean of St Paul's
- Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, from whence he was ejected for refusing to take the oath of the Commonwealth
- Fell out with James II when he tried to convert him to Anglicanism
- With six other clerics defied royal orders
- Is buried in the parish church at Fressingfield in Suffolk
In 1689 the First Guards and Coldstreamers were banished from London and William replaced them with Dutch infantry.
WAGES PAID TO ORDINARY WORKERS
(from the records of Somerset and Worcestershire) - A maid servant by the year: £1.10s
- A dairy maid by the year: £2
- A labourer by the day, without meat and drink from the feast of All Saints until Candelmas [sic]: 7d.
and with meat and drink: 3d. - A mower by the day, without meat and drink: 1s.
with meat and drink: 4d. - A reaper, as like a mower.
- Sawyers by the hundred, without meat and drink: 2s.4d with meat and drink: 1s.2d
- A thatcher: 1s
- A carpenter: 1s.
A mason the like wages as a carpenter. - Men making hay, finding themselves: 10d.
- Women making hay, finding themselves: 7d.
To put these wages into some perspective a gentleman would expect to have an income of about £880 a year, a lord bishop at least £1,200 and a well-bred nobleman, about £3000 or more a year.
 
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| 1677 | Princess Mary marries William of Orange
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| 1685 | Charles II dies
James II becomes king of England
Monmouth Rebellion put down
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| 1687 | James II dissolves Parliament
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| 1688 | Seven bishops imprisoned
Birth of James's son
William of Orange lands in England
James flees abroad
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| 1689 | William III and Mary II become king and queen of England
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| 1690 | Irish Jacobites defeated at Boyne
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| 1691 | Treaty of Limerick
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| 1694 | Death of Mary II
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| 1701 | Death of James II
Louis XIV of France recognizes the Old Pretender as king
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| 1702 | Anne becomes queen
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| 1704 | Battle of Blenheim
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