King Charles II

Standard Name: Charles II, King
Used Form: Charles the Second

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Wealth and Poverty Elinor James
Thomas James's will, proved in May 1710, did not leave EJ the library: he intended it to become a public library in its own right, under the title of the Jameson Society. Elinor, however, got...
Wealth and Poverty Aphra Behn
AB , facing prison for her debt of £150, petitioned the king for arrears of payment.
Leibell, Sister Helen Dominica. Anglo-Saxon Education of Women: From Hilda to Hildegarde. B. Franklin.
127
Todd, Janet. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn. Rutgers University Press.
119
Violence Elizabeth Hooton
Although she had written permission from the king to buy land, and although she was at least sixty years old, EH was seized in Boston, stripped to the waist (despite the snow), tied to...
Travel Ann, Lady Fanshawe
In May the year after her marriage, the new Lady Fanshawe travelled from Oxford to Bristol to rejoin her husband, who was there with the court of the future Charles II . Next year they...
Travel Margaret Fell
In summer 1663 MF made a thousand-mile journey around the west (from Bristol through Somerset, Devon, and Dorset, then north and through Yorkshire, Northumberland, and Westmorland); five years later...
Travel Elizabeth Stirredge
In November 1670 (after long resisting what she took to be the voice of God bidding her to do this) ES made her one-hundred-mile walk to London to deliver a testimony to King Charles .
Stirredge, Elizabeth. Strength in Weakness Manifest. J. Sowle.
37-40
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Carola Oman
Of the various writing women connected with Henrietta Maria, CO mentions Margaret Cavendish as a serious-minded girl of literary aspirations,
Oman, Carola. Henrietta Maria. Hodder and Stoughton.
152
and Ann, Lady Fanshawe , merely as an awed reporter of the good looks...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Cassandra Cooke
Other events follow the ending of the inset tale. Dr Scot is involved in a hush-hush mission with General Monck , facilitating the Restoration of Charles II . The story cannot end until the title...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Aphra Behn
Its topic was the political posturing of Charles 's illegitimate son Monmouth , Protestant claimant to the succession.
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Katherine Philips
KP 's poems range over every degree of a scale reaching from expressions of intense personal feeling to formal comment on public affairs. She wrote on the execution of Charles I , the Restoration of...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Ray Strachey
Richard Keigwin, a Cornishman, was a naval officer with the East India Company and had a distinguished record when, together with other soldiers who had not been paid, he led a local rebellion against the...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Frances Boothby
The prologue stresses the author's gender (A Womans Pen presents you with a Play),
Milling, Jane. “’In the Female Coasts of Fame’: women’s dramatic writing on the public stage, 1669-71”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
7
, No. 2, pp. 267-93.
280
and jokes about her presumed nervousness and probable madness. In the play Marcelia loves Lotharicus. Her cousin Melynet...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Emma Robinson
The highly involved plot of this novel brought together a number of high-profile historical London figures to surround the hero and heroine of its love-story: the Merry Monarch himself, his lower-class mistress Nell Gwyn ...
Textual Production Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland
The title of the folio is The History of The Life, Reign, and Death of Edward II. King of England and Lord of Ireland. With The Rise and Fall of his great Favourites, Gaveston and...
Textual Production Anne Halkett
AH composed an essay Upon the last Change of Publick Affairs and upon the Return of the King.
Halkett, Anne, and S. C. The Life of the Lady Halket. Andrew Symson and Henry Knox.

Timeline

August 1651: Christopher Love, a clergyman, was executed...

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August 1651

Christopher Love , a clergyman, was executed by order of Parliament for disobeying its dictates, in spite of the campaign of petitions organized by his wife, Mary .

3 September 1651: Royalist hopes of a military victory were...

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3 September 1651

Royalist hopes of a military victory were finally crushed by defeat at the battle of Worcester; the future Charles II became a fugitive.

25 May 1659: Richard Cromwell (who had succeeded his father...

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25 May 1659

Richard Cromwell (who had succeeded his father as Lord Protector the previous year) resigned, leaving the way clear for negotiation with Charles II about restoration to the throne.

May 1660: John Dryden published Astræa Redux, a poem...

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May 1660

John Dryden published Astræa Redux, a poem of welcome to the returning Charles II ; he followed it with other monarchist poems.

8 May 1660: Charles II was officially proclaimed king,...

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8 May 1660

Charles II was officially proclaimed king, in London.

29 May 1660: Charles II entered London as the restored...

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29 May 1660

Charles II entered London as the restored king; the date became one of annual celebration for royalists.

6 July 1660: Charles II revived the old practice of touching...

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6 July 1660

Charles II revived the old practice of touching for the evil: professing to cure scrofula by a ceremonious royal touch.

21 August 1660: Charles II issued patents to Sir William...

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21 August 1660

Charles II issued patents to Sir William Davenant and Thomas Killigrew to open separate theatre companies in London.

25 September 1660: Samuel Pepys drank his first cup of tee (a...

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25 September 1660

Samuel Pepys drank his first cup of tee [sic] (a China drink), which had been arriving in England via Holland for a few years. (Coffee had been established in England for a decade or so...

7 October 1660: News reached the British royal household...

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7 October 1660

News reached the British royal household of a marriage that was to become dynastically significant: that of the king 's brother (later James II ) with the commoner Anne Hyde , daughter of Lord Clarendon .

Between 14 and 17 October 1660: A group of those associated with the execution...

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Between 14 and 17 October 1660

A group of those associated with the execution of Charles I (several of the almost sixty Regicides who in various official capacities had signed his death-warrant, and others) were executed by hanging.

18 December 1660: The Royal Adventurers (later the Royal African...

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18 December 1660

The Royal Adventurers (later the Royal African Company ) was founded under the personal patronage of Charles II and James II ; this represented Britain's active engagement with the slave trade.

1661: John Evelyn published a pamphlet entitled...

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1661

John Evelyn published a pamphlet entitled Fumifugium: or, The Inconvenience of the Aer and Smoake of London Dissipated; a reprint by the National Smoke Abatement Society in 1933 has an introduction by Rose Macaulay .

January 1661: Fifth Monarchists (who expected the Second...

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January 1661

Fifth Monarchists (who expected the Second Coming and political rule of Christ, and had opposed the Cromwell ian government too) staged an uprising against the new king, Charles II .

23 April 1661: Charles II was crowned in Westminster Abbey,...

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23 April 1661

Charles II was crowned in Westminster Abbey, nearly a year after his restoration. Popular rejoicing followed.

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