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Notes

Prologue: The Republic Trumped

1
Letters
37

2
9th version, Rochester,
Works
294

3
Evelyn, IV 405, 4 February 1685

4
Burnet II 480

5
Gilbert Burnet in L. von Ranke,
History of England
(1875 edn) VI, Appendix, Second section, III 78–9

6
Ibid.

7
Burnet I 167

8
November 1659; Tim Harris, ‘Understanding popular politics’, Houston and Pincus 130

9
J. Tillotson,
Works
(1798) I 95

10
See
The Cambridge Companion to Lucretius
, ed. Philip Hardie (2007); Paul Hammond, ‘Dryden, Milton and Lucretius’,
Seventeenth Century
16 (2001) 158–76

11
Margaret Cavendish, ‘Of Many Worlds in this World’,
Poems and Fancies
(1653)

12
Hobbes,
Leviathan
, Part I, Ch. 13, 186

13
Ibid. Part II, Ch. 18, 231

14
Ibid. Part I, Ch. 5, 105

15
Thomas Hobbes,
De Cive
(1642), ed. H. Warrender (1983) 177–8

1 Sailing

1
Previously attributed to Marvell, but this is now generally doubted; see Smith

2
Evelyn III 149–50, 9 April 1655

3
Fox 69

4
Sandwich,
Journal
75–7, reporting message from Monck

5
Pepys I 136, 13 May 1660

6
Ibid. 153, 22 May 1660

7
Quoted in Charles Fitzroy,
Return of the King
(2007) 198

8
Ian Roy,
ODNB
. For Elizabeth of Bohemia, see the project on her voluminous correspondence at CELL (Centre for Editing Life and Letters), Queen Mary, London,
www.livesandletters.ac.uk
; for Rupert see Rupert Kitson,
Prince Rupert: Admiral and General-at-sea
(1998) and Charles Spencer,
Prince Rupert: The Last Cavalier
(2008)

9
Burnet I 52

10
Cal. Clar. SP
II, Appendix lxiv

11
Burnet II 466

12
Pepys I 155, 23 May 1660

13
Ibid. 156, 23 May 1660

2 Landing

1
Pepys I 156–7, 24 May 1660

2
Jardine,
Going Dutch
, 172–3

3
Pepys I 157, 24 May 1660

4
Fanshawe, 140–1

5
Josselin, 17 November 1650. See Pincus,
Protestantism and Patriotism
, passim

6
CII to Elizabeth of Bohemia, Cottrell transcripts, RA 5/2/1

7
6 March 1658, Scott 2. For background see also Geoffrey Smith,
The Cavaliers in Exile 1646–60
(2003)

8
Pepys I 45, 7 February 1660

9
The Complete Prose Works of John Milton
(1953) VII 353

10
Letters
83, CII to Monck, 27 March 1660

11
Letters
86–8, CII to the Speaker, Lenthall, 4 April 1660: Clar.
Hist
. VI 227–9. For the Declaration, see Browning,
Historical Documents
57

12
Sir William Killigrew to CII, 8 April 1660, PM, R of E Box 9, 003

13
Pepys I 121, 1 May 1660

14
Rugg 79

15
Hutton,
Restoration
5

16
Clar.
Hist.
VI 256; see Evelyn III 245, 24 May 1660

17
Pepys I 143, 16 May 1660

18
Clar.
Hist.
VI 262

19
Sandwich,
Journal
78

20
Pepys I 158, 25 May 1660

21
Ibid. I 159. Also W. Blundell,
Crosby Records
, ed. T. E Gibson, 1822, 90; Margaret Blundell,
Cavalier: Letters of William Blundell
(1933) 92

3 How To Be King

1
Manner of the Most Happy Return
(1660)

2
Cavendish,
Life
127

3
CSPD
1659–60, 448, 28 May

4
CSPD
1660–1,109, 3 July

5
Letters
92, CII to Minette, 29 May 1660

6
CSPD
1659–60, 447

7
Giavarini,
CSPV
1659–61,151; Fitzroy 203

8
For the procession, see
Mercurius Publicus
, 339–42, 24–31 May 1660; Rugg 85–6, Edward Walker,
A Circumstantial Account
11–15

9
Evelyn III 246, 29 May 1660

10
Letters
92–3

11
Clar.
Hist.
VI 234

12
Sir Samuel Tuke,
A Character of Charles II
(1660); Hutton,
Restoration
111

13
Tuke, op. cit.

14
Margaret Willes,
Reading Matters: Five Centuries of Discovering Books
(2008) 47. See also ‘News and Partisan Politics’, Weiser 95–125, and John Miller,
After the Civil Wars
.
English Politics and Government in the Reign of Charles II
(2000) Ch. 4

15
See David H. Solkin, ‘Isaac Fuller’s Escape of Charles II: A Restoration Tragicomedy’,
Journal of the Warburg and Courthauld Institutes
62 (1999) 199–240

16
Evelyn III 259, 29 October 1660

17
Canon David Lloyd (often attrib. to Sir Richard Fanshawe),
Eikon Basilike…or the true pourtraiture of Charles II
(1660). For later parodies of these books see McKeon,
Domesticity
566

18
Francis Gregory,
David’s Return from His Banishment
, 1660. CCL

19
See Katharine Gibson, ‘“Best Belov’d of Kings”: The Iconography of King Charles II’, PhD thesis, Courtauld Institute, University of London, 2004; Ribeiro 218

20
Mercurius Publicus
, July 1660; Picard 79. See also Pepys I 182, 23 June 1660. See Keay 112–8; Raymond Crawfurd,
The King’s Evil
(1911); Marc Bloch, trans. J. E. Anderson,
The Royal Touch: Sacred Monarchy and Scrofula in England and France
(1973)

21
Aubrey,
Miscellanies
(1890 edn) 128; Thomas 230

22
CSPV
1659–61 32, 74

23
RA, Establishment Book 1660

24
Schellinks,
Journal
60

25
Thurley,
Lost Palace
42

26
Magalotti 126

27
Newsletter, 9 June 1660, HMC
5th Report

28
Pepys I 222, 15 August 1660

29
CSPV
1661–4, 42

30
Establishment Book, RA EB 55/ ff. 133–47

31
Macray 11, 5 October 1660

32
Evelyn III 256, 13 September 1660

33
‘…it has since been Disputeable among the Judicious, whether any Woman that succeeded him so Sensibly touch’d the Audience as he’. Downes, 19; Cibber 71

34
Warrant granted to Killigrew and Davenant, 21 May 1660; D. Thomas, ed.,
Theatre in Europe
;
Restoration & Georgian England
(1989) 11–12. BL Add. MS 19,256, f. 47

35
Evelyn III 399–400, 9 February 1665

36
Waller, ‘On St James’s Park, As Lately Improved by His Majesty’ (1661),
The Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham
, ed. George Gilfillan (1877) 75–6

37
Reresby 22

38
Randle Holme,
The Academy of Armoury
(1688); Picard 126–34

39
Pepys II 66, 6 April 1661

40
Holme,
Academy of Armoury
; see Richard Corson,
Fashions in Hair
(1980), 219–20

41
Pepys III 157–8, 19 August 1663

42
Carte IV 451

43
Mercurius Publicus
, 28 June 166o. With thanks to Francesca Beauman, who quotes this in
Shapely Ankle Preferr’d: A History of Lonely Hearts Advertisements
(forthcoming 2011)

44
Ailesbury I 93

4 Three Crowns And More

1
For the administration see Aylmer,
Crown’s Servants

2
Fanshawe, 140

3
Clar.
Life
. I 77–8

4
Burnet I 171

5
Macray 5

6
For background, see Harris,
Restoration
21–38, 85–138

7
Miller,
CII
137

8
Burnet I 186

9
Ibid. 205

10
For his debts, see G. E. Aylmer, ‘The First Duke of Ormond as Patron and Administrator’ in Barnard and Fenlon; also J. C. Beckett,
The Cavalier Duke: a Life of James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormond
, 1610–88 (1990)

11
Carte II 240–1

12
Macray 65

13
Ormond to Orrery, 9 September 1661, Hastings MSS IV 109

14
See David Watts,
The West Indies
(1990). Barbados sugar exports rose from seventy-five tons in the early 1650s to 190 tons a decade later, with an additional thirty tons from the Leeward islands and ten from Jamaica.

15
Willoughby’s report on the islands of the West Indies, CSP Col.,
America and W. Indies
V (1661–8) 586

16
Grove 67, 277; PRO, CO1/21, ‘Memorial of the Island of Tobago’ (1667)

5 This Wonderful Pacifick Year

1
See Holmes, 27–43

2
Jusserand 100, Cominges to Louis XIV, 4 February 1664

3
Act for Confirming Judicial Proceedings
1660

4
Act to Preserve the Person and Government of the King
1661

5
Keeble,
Restoration
79

6
J. Gibson,
The Hearth Tax and other later Stuart Tax Lists
, Federation of Family History Societies (1996). The tax was levied on households worth more than 20s, whose occupants contributed to the church tithes and poor rates.

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