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2 days ago · Charles II arrived in London on the 30th birthday of what had already been a remarkably eventful life. He came of age in Europe, a child of diplomatic intrigues, broken promises, and unfulfilled hopes. By necessity he had developed a thick skin and a shrewd political realism.
2 days ago · Charles II, 1660: An Act for granting unto the Kings Majestic Fower hundred and twenty thousand pounds by an Assessment of three score and ten thousand pounds by the moneth for six moneths for disbanding the remainder of the Army, and paying off the Navy.
5 days ago · Media outlets in the United Kingdom reported that for sale was a missal that had once belonged to a priest who had helped King Charles II when he was fleeing Cromwell’s soldiers after the Battle of Worcester in 1651. That priest in question was Father John Huddleston.
3 days ago · The second Parliament. On the 8th of May the new Parliament met, and the King proceeded to the House of Peers, with unusual Solemnity, being attended by all the great Officers of State, the whole Body of the Nobility in their Robes; Drums, Trumpets, &c.
3 days ago · Charles II, 1660: An Act of Free and Generall Pardon Indempnity and Oblivion. Statutes of the Realm: Volume 5, 1625-80. Originally published by Great Britain Record Commission, s.l, 1819. This free content was digitised by double rekeying. Public Domain.
14 hours ago · Royalist defeat in the 1648 Second English Civil War resulted in the execution of Charles I in January 1649, and establishment of the Commonwealth of England. In 1650, Charles II was crowned king of Scotland, in return for agreeing to create a Presbyterian church in both England and Scotland.
2 days ago · James VII and II (14 October 1633 O.S. – 16 September 1701) was King of England and Ireland as James II and King of Scotland as James VII from the death of his elder brother, Charles II, on 6 February 1685.
