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FROM

THE RESTORATION TO THE REVOLUTION,
(1660-1688).

BY

J. DAVIES,

UNIVERSITY OF LONDON,

Author of "Manuals' of Genesis, St. Matthew, &c.;
the Church Catechism, and the Book of Common Prayer; and
the History and Literature of the Stuart Period,
the Tudor Period, &c. &c.

GEORGE PHILIP & SON, 32, FLEET STREET.
LIVERPOOL: CAXTON BUILDINGS, SOUTH JOHN STREET, AND
49 & 51, SOUTH CASTLE STREET.

1875.

226. k. 431.

HISTORY OF ENGLAND,

(1660-1688.)

N.B.-If it be thought necessary to get up, as part of this Period, the

EVENTS OF 1660, PREVIOUS TO CHARLES II.'S

ACCESSION,

these will be found fully narrated in "Davies's Manual" of 1640-1660.

Stuart Line, (restored.)

CHARLES II.

Dates of Birth, Accession, and Death. At St. James's Palace, London, May 29, 1630; Jan. 30, 1649 (the Judges deciding, and Parliament voting, that, though he did not actually ascend the throne till May 29, 1660, he was king, both de jure and de facto, from the moment of his father's death), (crowned Ap. 23, 1661) -- 1685, Feb. 6, at Whitehall, London, of apoplexy, (some say epilepsy), with which he was suddenly seized, Feb. 2: being bled, he so far revived that recovery appeared certain, but he speedily sank, and languished away. There were, apparently unfounded, suspicions that he was poisoned. He was so strong of constitution, and, owing to the care he took, so habitually healthy, that his illness and decease, were to the nation as a thunderbolt. Upon his seizure, services, to entreat his recovery, were held in the churches, to which the people flocked in multitudes, thus showing how popular he was. He refused to receive