This cultural history challenges the standard depiction of the 1660s as the beginning of a new age of stability, demonstrating that the decade following the Restoration was just as complex and exciting as the revolutionary years that preceded it.Preface.
List of Abbreviations.
A Note on Conventions, Procedures and Dates.
Introduction.
1. The Return of the King (1658–60):.
The Fall of the Protectorate (September 1658 – April 1659).
The Rump Restored (May – September 1659).
Don Juan Lamberto(October – December 1659).
The Long Parliament Restored (January – March 1660).
Monarchy Restored (April – May 1660).
2. The Restoration Year (1660-61):.
‘Past all humane policy'.
The Royal Martyr.
‘A time of universal festivity & joy'.
Restoration or Revolution?.
Executions and Exhumations.
3. Great Zerubbabel: Charles and the Convention (1660):.
Images of the King.
‘Our good old Form'.
The Declaration of Breda.
The Act of Oblivion.
The Convention Settlement.
4. Royal Servants: Clarendon and the Cavalier Parliament (1661–67):.
Court and Country.
The Cavalier Settlement.
‘The fat Scriv'ner'.
The Costs of War.
‘The old man's going away'.
5. Fathers in God: the Church of England:.
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