The Restoration

List of Abbreviations.

A Note on Conventions, Procedures and Dates.

Introduction.

1. The Return of the King (1658â"60):.

The Fall of the Protectorate (September 1658 â" April 1659).

The Rump Restored (May â" September 1659).

Don Juan Lamberto(October â" December 1659).

The Long Parliament Restored (January â" March 1660).

Monarchy Restored (April â" May 1660).

2. The Restoration Year (1660-61):.

âPast all humane policy'.

The Royal Martyr.

âA time of universal festivity & joy'.

Restoration or Revolution?.

Executions and Exhumations.

3. Great Zerubbabel: Charles and the Convention (1660):.

Images of the King.

âOur good old Form'.

The Declaration of Breda.

The Act of Oblivion.

The Convention Settlement.

4. Royal Servants: Clarendon and the Cavalier Parliament (1661â"67):.

Court and Country.

The Cavalier Settlement.

âThe fat Scriv'ner'.

The Costs of War.

âThe old man's going away'.

5. Fathers in God: the Church of England:.

The Worcester House Declaration.

The Act of Uniformity.

Comprehension, Indulgence and the Clarendon Code.

Laudians and Latitude-men.

Giant Pope.

6. âThe patience of heroic fortitude': nonconformity, sedition and.

dissent:.

âFall'n on evil days': Milton and Bunyan.

The experience of persecution.

Nonconformist culture.

The Licensing Act and the press.

Radicals, republicans and plotters.

7. âLuxury with Charles restor'?: the temper of the times:.

âA yeare of prodigies'1665â"66).

âThings going to wrack'.

The Cabal (1667â"70).

Porno-politics.

A la mode.

8. âMale and female created he them':.

Men and Women.

The Weaker Vessel.

âAn honourable estate'.

A Woman's Place.

Men of the World.

Afterword.

Notes.

Index.