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...
Timeline
11 February 1660
General Monck
, having marched on London from Scotland, dissolved the Parliament
by military threat and convened a new one.
3 March 1660
Milton
published The Readie and Easie Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth, a pamphlet designed to sway public opinion against the restoration either of the monarchy or of rule by any single individual.
8-9 August 1666
In a major English coup of the Second Dutch War, Albemarle
and Prince Rupert
burned a hundred and fifty Dutch merchant ships off the island of Schelling.