King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1660 to 1685 (1630-1685)
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A king who fled his own country after losing a civil war, spent nine years wandering Europe in exile, then returned on his thirtieth birthday to reclaim the throne — and ruled for twenty-five years by balancing public Anglicanism with private Catholic sympathies and a court notorious for its mistresses.
Charles II became king of Scotland in 1649 days after his father Charles I was executed, but Oliver Cromwell crushed him at the Battle of Worcester in 1651 and sent him into continental exile for nearly a decade. Cromwell's death in 1658 opened the way for the Restoration, and on 29 May 1660 Charles returned to London amid public celebration. His reign threaded between religious pressures: Parliament passed the Clarendon Code to fortify the Church of England while Charles quietly favored tolerance, signed a secret pact with Louis XIV in 1670 promising eventual conversion to Catholicism, and sa…
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If we are understood, more words are unnecessary; if we are not likely to be understood, they are useless.
Mrs. Lane and I took our journey towards Bristol, resolving to lie at a place called Long Marson, in the vale of Esham.
And who cannot but remember, That Religion, Liberty and Property were all lost and gone, when the Monarchy was shaken off, and could never be reviv'd till that was restored.
He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.
Let not poor Nelly starve.
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