The Restoration England in the 1660s

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.

N. H. Keeble is Professor of English Studies and Deputy Principal at the University of Stirling. He is the author of Richard Baxter: Puritan Man of Letters (1982) and The Literary Culture of Nonconformity in Later Seventeenth-Century England (1987). He has compiled a two-volume Calendar of the Correspondence of Richard Baxter (1991, with Geoffrey F. Nuttall) and has edited texts by Baxter, John Bunyan and Lucy Hutchinson, as well as collections of essays on Bunyan and an anthology illustrating The Cultural Identity of Seventeenth-Century Woman (1994).

Preface

x

List of Abbreviations

xii

A Note on Conventions, Procedures and Dates

xvii

Introduction

1

(4)

The Return of the King (1658--1660)

5

(27)

The Fall of the Protectorate (September 1658--April 1659)

5

(4)

The Rump Restored (May--September 1659)

9

(2)

Don Juan Lamberto (October--December 1659)

11

(6)

The Long Parliament Restored (January--March 1660)

17

(9)

Monarchy Restored (April--May 1660)

26

(6)

The Restoration Year (1660--1661)

32

(26)

`Past all humane policy'

32

(4)

The Royal Martyr

36

(4)

`A time of universal festivity & joy'

40

(6)

Restoration or Revolution?

46

(8)

Executions and Exhumations

54

(4)

Great Zerubbabel: Charles and the Convention (1660)

58

(27)

Images of the King

58

(6)

`Our good old Form'

64

(4)

The Declaration of Breda

68

(2)

The Act of Oblivion

70

(6)

The Convention Settlement

76

(9)

Royal Servants: Clarendon and the Cavalier Parliament (1661--1667)

85

(24)

Court and Country

85

(4)

The Cavalier Settlement

89

(6)

`The fat Scriw'ner'

95

(7)

The Costs of War

102

(3)

`The old man's going away'

105

(4)

Fathers in God: The Church of England

109

(23)

The Worcester House Declaration

109

(6)

The Act of Uniformity

115

(5)

Comprehension, Indulgence and the Clarendon Code

120

(4)

Laudians and Latitude-men

124

(5)

Giant Pope

129

(3)

`The Patience of Heroic Fortitude': Nonconformity, Sedition and Dissent

132

(27)

`Fall'n on evil days': Milton and Bunyan

132

(6)

The Experience of Persecution

138

(6)

Nonconformist Culture

144

(4)

The Licensing Act and the Press

148

(6)

Radicals, Republicans and Plotters

154

(5)

`Luxury with Charles restor'd'? The Temper of the Times

159

(24)

`A yeare of prodigies' (1665--1666)

159

(5)

`Things going to wrack'

164

(4)

The Cabal (1667--1670)

168

(3)

Porno-politics

171

(5)

A la mode

176

(7)

`Male and Female Created He Them'

183

(23)

Men and Women

183

(3)

The Weaker Vessel

186

(5)

`An honourable estate'

191

(3)

A Woman's Place

194

(4)

Men of the World

198

(8)

Afterword

206

(2)

Notes

208

(46)

Index

254

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The Restoration England in the 1660s

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