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That's quite a complicated question. Firstly. In law. The House of Lords was the highest court in the land, the court of appeal from Kings Bench and Common Pleas (the procedure was different, by a writ of error, not appeal, but that was the effect) In law, the Commons had no judicial...

There are a number of problems here. Firstly, of course, the Duke did indeed often stay the night. Oatlands was his house, and he and she got on quite well in a platonic way. Different bedrooms of course, big house. Secondly, the law then, both common and civil, was very strict. A child of a...

A very interesting topic. And a welcome changes from wars and marriages. I'm afraid I don't know a lot about it though (other than I rather like baroque architecture and music). Wren didn't die until 1723 , and Vanbrough till 1726. They didn't really have any successors as far as I can...

The D of Y separated very early in their marriage ( she was a /tad/ eccentric) , but remained on speaking terms. What would be interesting would be if the Duchess of York bore a son some years after their marriage and separation. By law, the child would be considered the legitimate heir of...

What marriage ?

William was also King of Hanover, but there the German inheritance rules applied, which excluded all females, so long as there was a living male heritor. So Hanover went to William's next living brother, the Duke of Cumberland. Which I think was the alternative the OP was suggesting.

It is called descent per stirpes. It applies to ordinary inheritance also. If your grandfather left his property to be divided equally amongst his children , per stirpes, but your father died before your grandfather, then you would get the share your father would have gotten. It's a bit...

Wise men might note that Russia was now looking westward. And that Russia and Sweden must clash. Russia and Denmark had more to offer this *England than Sweden did

I think you are fairly much correct in your assessment except where you say "no one important would listen to the radical dissenters ". And in placing such reliance on the Declaration of Indulgence. Perhaps no one important believed the rantings of Titus Oates and his like. But they certainly...

By now the relative strength of England and Scotland is such that, as long as Charles keeps the support of the Church of England Scotland may rebel if it wishes. And be crushed. But that's a big 'so long as'. I don't think that he would necessarily forfeit that support by marrying his...

Dissenters. Isolated mob risings, Wales, Midlands. Orchestrated rising , ie a nobleman behind it, either London, Bristol or the 'old' midland towns :Peterborough, Derby, Sheffield, Coventry. Scottish nobles. Hm I'm not so up on Scotland. I'd suspect the Campbells (earls of argyle) , the...

zi would think in the late 1670s at latest. Shaftesbury is our weathercock and by then he was moving strongly against the royal party. In TTL the impeachment of Danby in 1678 probably doesn't happen, Parliament is under royal control. But discontent will find a channel, no matter what. If I...

Yes, I would agree as to the sense of the country. 'country' in this England pretty much means the country gentlemen. Hodge will go where squire and parson lead. The dissenters were actually, numerically, a small minority, perhaps no more than 10% in England (Scotland is another matter) . Their...

The Quakers, they are no problem. They never were, all they wanted was to be left in peace, unmolested. But the Presbyterians, the Congregationalists and Independents, I think you are over sanguine. Remember, many of them may actually have fought under Cromwell.Some will have watched and...

There is an interesting legal conundrum in the treatment of Anne. Cranmer annulled the marriage . No reason given , just "It's annulled, now shut up" That meant, the marriage never was. She was never, in law, Henry's wife. But, in that case, she could not be guilty of treason. You cannot have...