She was a natural daughter of King James II.

她是国王詹姆斯二世的私生女。

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So the English politicians rejected James II, and appealed to a Protestant king, William of Orange, to invade and take the English throne.

英国政客反对詹姆斯二世，他们呼吁信奉新教的奥兰治亲王威廉入侵英国夺取王位。

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In 1685, at the Battle of Sedgemoor, in Somerset, England, the troops of King James II defeated the mainly peasant supporters of the Duke of Monmouth.

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Jonathan Trelawny who was ordained in 1673, was one of seven bishops charged with high treason and imprisoned in the Tower of London for refusing to implement King James II's Declaration of Indulgence granting religious tolerance to Catholics.

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Although few details of the book's creation are known, it is generally believed to have been the work of an English bookseller, publisher, journalist, and staunch antipapist named Benjamin Harris, who fled London for Boston in 1686 following the ascent of King James II to the British throne.

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