During Samuel Parker's time as a Bishop of Oxford, James II and VII (14 October 1633  16 September 1701) was King of England.
 During the reign of King James II he served as Bishop of Oxford, and was considered by James to be a moderate in his attitude to Catholics. 
James II and VII (14 October 1633  16 September 1701) was King of England and Ireland as James II and King of Scotland as James VII, from 6 February 1685 until he was deposed in the Glorious Revolution of 1688. 
