Stuarts

1. A Scottish family that ruled England from the early seventeenth century to the early eighteenth century, except for the eleven years of the Commonwealth . The last Stuart, Queen Anne, died without any surviving children. The crown then passed to the House of Hanover .

Example Sentences

The old theories lingered long in manor-houses and parsonages, and among all whose hearts were with the banished Stuarts.

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It is clear that there was no such intellectual phenomenon in all London under the Stuarts as that little Wrentham lad.

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The accession of the Stuarts to the throne of England took place under peculiar circumstances.

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The changes effected in the land laws of England during the reigns of the Stuarts, a period of 111 years, were very important.

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The legislation of the Stuarts was invariably favorable to the possessor of land and adverse to the rights of the people.

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