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  23 LJ XII 181

  24 Milward 179, 6 February 1668

  25 Ibid. 216–22 for the lengthy debate on the King’s speech, 11 March 1668, also 248–50

  26 Keay 133, citing BL Add. MS 36,916, f. 103r

  27 Quoted in Nicholas von Maltzahn, ‘Andrew Marvell and Lord Wharton’, Seventeenth Century, XVIII no. 2 (Autumn 2003) 255–6

  28 Paradise Lost XII

  29 Sir Charles Wolsely, Liberty of Conscience, the Magistrate’s Interest (1668), quoted in Gary S. de Krey, ‘Radicals, reformers and republicans’, Houston and Pincus 84

  30 Grey, Debates I 71, 14 February 1668

  31 Bod. Carte MSS 46, f. 600, Arlington to Ormond, 18 February 1668

  32 Pepys IX 71, 14 February 1668

  33 Milward 190, 19 February 1668

  34 Pepys IX 178, 29 April 1668

  35 Grey, Debates I 95–6, 93–7; Milward 200, 27 February 1668

  36 CJ IX 44

  37 See Harris, London Crowds 82–91

  38 Pepys IX 129, 24 March 1668

  39 Ibid. 132, 25 March 1668

  40 The Poore Whore’s Petition. To the most Splendid, Illustrious, Serene and Eminent Lady of Pleasure, the Countess of Castlemayne (1668); MSS reply, Bod. MS Don b.8, 190–3; The Gracious Answer of the Most Illustrious Lady of Pleasure, the Countess of Castlemayne…To the Poor-Whoores Petition (1668), reprinted in Steinman, 101–11

  41 The Gracious Answer, Hamilton 120–1

  42 State Trials VI 879–914; CSPD 1667–8, 310–11

  43 Pepys IX 373, 23 November 1668

  35 Loving Too Well

  1 Pepys IX 192, 9 May 1668

  2 King’s Works 215–16

  3 Evelyn III 555

  4 Reresby 259

  5 Magalotti 27; Weiser 19

  6 Magalotti 27

  7 ‘A Satire on Charles II’, Rochester, Poems 11–15

  8 Pepys VII 368, 30 July 1667

  9 Ibid. 368, 355; 30 and 27 July 1667

  10 Etherege, She Would If She Could I ii, ed. C. M. Taylor (1973) 25

  11 Downes 55

  12 Burnet 483

  13 Pepys IX 81, 20 February 1668

  14 Pepys IX 186, 5 May 1668

  15 Hamilton, Castlemaine 121

  16 Pepys IX 398, 21 December 1668

  17 Quoted in Weiser 21

  18 Norrington 151, CII to Minette, 7 May 1668

  19 Pepys IX 210, 31 May 1668

  20 Mary married the Earl of Derwentwater, and by a heartbreaking turn of fate, two of their three sons – Charles’s grandsons – were executed in the Jacobite risings of 1715 and 1745.

  21 Norrington 138, CII to Minette, 26 August 1667

  22 See Hatton Correspondence I 52

  23 Norrington 143, CII to Minette, 23 January 1668

  24 Pepys IX 205, 19 May 1668

  25 Norrington 151, CII to Minette, 7 May 1668

  26 Ruvigny to Lionne, 28 June 1668, Hartmann 158

  27 Norrington 154, CII to Minette, 14 June 1668

  28 Fraser 261; Shapiro 219, 288

  36 Sweet Ladies

  1 Pepys IX 335–6, 338–9, 23, 25 October 1668

  2 Anon. (attrib. Etherege), ‘The Lady of Pleasure: a Satyr’, see James Thorpe, ed., Poems of Sir George Etherege (1963)

  3 S. M. Wynne, ODNB. Several different versions appear in the biographies, including J. H. Wilson (1952), Roy MacGregor-Hastie (1987), and Derek Parker (2000). The most recent is Charles Beauclerk, Nell Gwyn: A Biography (2005).

  4 Pepys IX 91, 2 March 1667

  5 Winn 183. Dryden had recently lent Charles £500, returning an instalment of his wife’s dowry.

  6 Dryden, Secret Love I ii, Works IX 187

  7 Ibid. V i, Works IX 182

  8 Ibid., Works IX 199

  9 The Mad Couple; Summers 116

  10 Beauclerk 128

  11 Dryden, An Evening’s Love, or The Mock Astrologer IV I, Works X 273

  12 Ibid., Works X 280

  13 PRO 31/3/121, Colbert de Croissy to Lionne, 31 January 1669; S. M. Wynne, ‘The Mistresses of Charles II and Restoration Court Politics’, Stuart Courts 180

  14 Beauclerk 138–40

  15 Pepys IX 415, 417; 15, 16 January 1669

  16 Dryden, Tyrannick Love V I, Works X 178

  17 Evelyn III 560, 28 August 1670

  18 Magalotti 39

  19 Grammont 101

  20 Beauclerk 154; PRO 31/3

  21 Burnet I 484

  22 The first mention is the Supplement to James Granger’s Biographical Dictionary, 1774.

  37 Troublesome Men

  1 Thirsk and Cooper, I 520–24; PRO SP 29/247, no. 15. The members were Arlington, Robartes, Buckingham, Lauderdale, Clifford, Carteret and Ashley. In 1670 a new Council for Plantations was created, followed by Ashley’s Council for Trade and Plantations of 1672.

  2 Burnet I 170

  3 Ralph Montagu to Arlington, 19 October 1669, Montagu–Arlington letters, Buccleugh MSS 442

  4 Pepys IX 386, 7 December 1668

  5 Hartmann, Madame; Chapman, Great Villiers 153

  6 Pepys IX 462, 467, 471–91; 1, 4, 6–20 March 1669; PRO/31/3/121 ff. 198–200, Colbert de Croissy to Lionne

  7 Buckingham I 249–54

  8 Pepys IX 469, 4 March 1669

  9 Ibid. 346, 4 November 1668

  10 Harris, Restoration 380

  11 Le Fleming MSS 61; Carte, Ormonde III 69

  12 Burnet I 489

  13 Ibid. 432

  14 September 1667. See Lauderdale Papers II 49–90

  15 Lauderdale Papers II 168–71

  16 Mary K. Geiter, William Penn (2000)

  17 Lauderdale Papers II 163–4; Harris, Restoration 121

  18 Margoliouth II 221, ascribed to Marvell but authorship unknown. MS dated 1680

  19 Burnet I 448

  38 Charles And Louis

  1 Norrington 155, CII to Minette, 22 June 1668

  2 Hutton, CII 262

  3 Norrington 16, CII to Minette, 14 September 1668

  4 Pepys IV 21, 25 January 1665

  5 Norrington 169, CII to Minette, 20 January 1669

  6 Miller, CII 162

  7 Pepys IX 451–2, 17 February 1669

  8 Sandwich’s journal, in Richard Ollard, Cromwell’s Earl: Edward Montagu, First Earl of Sandwich (1994) 250

  9 Pepys IX 451–2, 17 February 1669

  10 Norrington 172, CII to Minette, 12 March 1669

  11 Pepys IX 427–8 and n. 473, 26 January, 7 March 1669

  12 Norrington 171, CII to Minette, 7 March 1669

  13 Pepys IX 474, 8 March 1669

  14 Norrington 175 (code removed in current text), CII to Minette, 25 April 1669

  15 Letters 236, CII to Minette, 24 May 1668

  16 Letters 239, CII to Minette, 7 June 1668

  17 Barbour 163; HMC Verney, 7th Report 487

  18 Letters 242

  19 Colbert de Croissy’s despatches, PRO 31/3/125

  20 Hartmann 310, Colbert to Louis XIV, 24 April, 2 May 1670

  21 Arlington, Letters 423–30

  22 Norrington 209

  23 This story, from Memoirs of Madame Montpensier IV 107–14, in Hartmann, Madame, repeated in Norrington. See also Paul Sonnino, Louis XIV and the Origins of the Dutch War (1988) 108

  24 Sandwich MSS Journal c 274; Harris, Sandwich 207

  39 Dover And Beyond

  1 Schellinks, Journal 39

  2 Hartmann, King My Brother 311

  3 CSPV 1669–70, 187, 201

  4 Barbour 168

  5 Text of Treaty, John Lingard, History of England, 10 vols (1819) IX, Appendix 503–10

  6 Mignet III, 256–67

  7 For Lingard’s text of the Treaty, see Browning, Historical Documents 863–7

  8 Le Fleming 70, newsletter 17 May 1670

  9 Ibid. 71

  10 CSPD 1670, 233–5

  11 CA 97 ff. 250–5, Croissy to Louis, 30, 31 May 1670

  12 CA 101 ff. 66–8, 8 October 1671, Colbert to Pomponne; Barbour 181
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  13 Burnet I 617

  14 Norrington 170, CII to Minette, 7 March 1669

  15 Hobbes, Leviathan, Part I, Ch. 3, 81

  40 Sailing

  1 Norrington 213, Minette to Thomas Clifford, 21 June 1679

  2 Madame de Lafayette, Historie Secret de Madame Henriette d’Angleterre, ed. G. Sigaux (1988) 89

  3 Hartmann, King My Brother 39

  4 Ralph Montagu to Arlington, 30 June 1670, Bath Papers, HMC 4th Report 144. See also M. B. Curran, ed., The Despatches of William Perwich, English Agent in Paris, 1669–1677 (1903)

  5 Rochester, Letters 57, July 1670

  6 Fraser 257–8

  7 See Miller, James II 58–9 and Sir John Dalrymple, Memoirs (1773 edn) I 32–3

  8 Absalom and Achitophel, Dryden, Poems I 495–6

  9 Andrew Marvell, Account of the Growth of Popery and Arbitrary Government (1677)

  10 Barillon’s testimony in H. D. Traill, Shaftesbury, the first Earl, ed. Andrew Lang (1888) 179

  11 Ollard, Image 158

  12 In 1684 he made no move when Robert Baillie, accused of conspiring, was taken from London to be questioned in Scotland, where no law existed against torture. Aidan O’Neill QC, Scottish Human Rights Commission Conference, Strathclyde University 2008

  13 Fraser 412

  14 Evelyn IV 403, 413–14, referring to 25 January 1685

  15 Ibid. 455, 15 July 1685

  16 Burnet II 461; Evelyn II 206; Lady Anne Mason, ‘Account of the death of Charles II, by a wife of a person about Court at Whitehall’, Household Words IX (1854)

  17 Burnet II 473, S. M. Wynne, ODNB

  List of Illustrations

  Plates

  Plate section 1

  1 Sir Anthony van Dyck, Charles I and Henrietta Maria with their two Eldest Children, Prince Charles and Princess Mary, Princess Royal, 1632, The Royal Collection © 2001 Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

  2 Sir Peter Lely, Charles II, The Royal Society, London

  3 Samuel Cooper, James II as Duke of York, 1661, Victoria and Albert Museum/Bridgeman

  4 Bartholemew van Helst, Mary, Princess of Orange, 1652, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

  5 Samuel Cooper, Henriette-Anne, Duchesse d’Orléans, Victoria and Albert Museum, London/Bridgeman

  6 Sir Peter Lely Prince Rupert, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich

  7 Dirck Stoop, Cavalcade Through the City of London, 22 April 1661, The Museum of London/Bridgeman Art Library

  8 The Arrival of the Prince de Ligne at Tower Wharf, September 1660, Collection of the Prince de Ligne, Belgium

  9 Samuel Cooper, George Monck, Duke of Albemarle, c. 1658, The Royal Collection

  10 Sir Peter Lely, Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, Private Collection/Bridgeman

  11 Unknown artist, George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, pencil and chalk sketch, Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, California

  12 After Sir Peter Lely, James Butler, Duke of Ormond, c. 1665, National Portrait Gallery

  13 Sir Peter Lely, Barbara Villiers, Countess of Castlemaine, c. 1662, The Royal Collection/Bridgeman

  14 Sir Peter Lely, Catherine of Braganza, The Royal Collection/Bridgeman

  15 Hendrick Danckerts Whitehall Palace from St James’s Park, Government Art Collection

  16 Peter Tillemans, Whitehall Palace from St James’s Park, c. 1675 (detail), Collection of the Duke of Roxburghe

  Plate section 2

  17 John Michael Wright, Astraea redux, Nottingham Castle Museum/Bridgeman

  18 Samuel Cooper, Charles II, Goodwood/Bridgeman, and Catherine of Braganza, The Royal Collection

  19 Samuel Cooper, Henry Bennet, Earl of Arlington, National Portrait Gallery

  20 Sir Peter Lely, John Maitland, Earl and later Duke of Lauderdale, with his wife Bess, Countess of Dysart, c. 1672, Ham House, The National Trust

  21 Sir Peter Lely James, Duke of York and Anne Hyde c. 1660–69, National Portrait Gallery

  22 Samuel Cooper, James Duke of Monmouth, The Royal Collection

  23 Unknown Artist, The Great Fire of London with Ludgate and Old St Paul’s, c. 1670, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection/Bridgeman

  24 Thomas Wyck, A transept of St Paul’s after the Fire c. 1673, Guildhall Library/Bridgeman

  25 J. P. van Soest, The Dutch Raid on the Medway, 1667 (detail) National Maritime Museum, Greenwich

  26 Sir Peter Lely, Frances Teresa Stuart, later Duchess of Richmond and Lennox, The Royal Collection

  27 Sir Peter Lely, Nell Gwyn, c. 1670, Sudbury Hall/Bridgeman

  28 Sir Peter Lely, Louise de Keroualle, later Duchess of Portsmouth, John Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

  29 Dover in the 1660s, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

  30 Sir Peter Lely, Princess Henriette-Anne, c. 1665, Goodwood/Bridgeman

  Illustrations In The Text

  Charles II, ‘Dieu et Mon Droit’, engraving by William Faithorne, c. 1660

  The execution of Charles I, engraving by an unknown artist, dated 1649

  Title page of Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, 1651

  Habit de Cartier, by Nicolas de Larmessin, c. 1690

  Francis Barlow, Princess Elizabeth, frontispiece to Sophocles’ Electra, translated by Christopher Wase, 1649

  Colonel Wilmot escorting Charles and Jane Lane, popular print

  General Monck, Duke of Albermarle, engraved by David Loggan

  The Great Feast the Estates of Holland made to the King and to the Royal Family. Engraving by Pierre Philippe after Jacob Toorenvliet, illustrating Sir William Lower, A relation of the Voiage which Charles II hath made in Holland, from the 25 May to the 2 of June 1660 (1660)

  Cromwell and Charles I, from Cavalier Playing Cards, designed by John Lenthall, 1660–2

  Wenceslaus Hollar, The long view of London from Bankside, 1647

  Isaac Fuller (attrib.), Charles II arriving at the Banqueting House in 1660

  Isaac Fuller, Charles II and Colonel Careless Hiding in the Boscobel Oak, c. 1662, National Portrait Gallery

  Touching for the King’s Evil, engraving by Robert White

  B. C. Kleeneknecht, The royal yacht ‘Bezan’, 1661, Scheepvaart Museum, Amsterdam

  Whitehall and St James, extract from Richard Newcourt’s map, engraved by William Faithorne 1658

  The Prayer Book riots in Scotland, 1637, British Library

  Sir Peter Lely, James Butler, Marquess and later Duke of Ormond, c. 1660, York City Art Gallery

  Hollar’s drawing of Westminster from the river, 1644

  John Evelyn, by Kneller, c. 1689, The Royal Society, London

  Lucy Walter

  Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, engraved by Robert White after the portrait by Lely

  The execution of the regicides, contemporary print

  Hollar, The Cavalcade, page openings for John Ogilby’s Entertainment of Charles II, in his Passage Through the City of London to his Coronation, 1662

  Hollar, The Crowning and Enthronement of Charles II, from Ogilby’s Entertainment, 1662

  Wenceslaus Hollar, Whitehall stairs, c. 1644

  George Vertue, Plan of the Palace of Whitehall, 1747, engraving of the plan of Whitehall c. 1670

  Plan of Whitehall, showing the royal apartments, Reginald Piggott.

  Samuel Cooper, Charles II, sketch, 1662

  Frontispiece to The Courtier’s Calling, 1675, British Library

  Francis Barlow, frontispiece to John Playford, Musick’s Delight on the Cithern, 1666

  The reception of the Prince de Ligne in the Banqueting Hall

  Staffordshire slipware charger by George Taylor, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

  Catherine of Braganza, engraving by William Faithorne, 1662, after Dirck Stoop

  The progress from Hampton Court to Whitehall, 23 August 1662

  Francis Barlow, frontispiece to John Ogilby, Britannia, 1675

  The Ace of Diamonds showing the constellation ‘Draco’180 Frontispiece to Daniel Featley, The Dippers Dipt, 1660 edition, British
Library

  Samuel Cooper, Archbishop Sheldon, 1667, Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore

  Title page of Farewell Sermons, 1663

  Sir Peter Lely, Barbara Villiers, Countess of Castlemaine, and her son Charles Fitzroy, c. 1663, Private Collection

  Sir Anthony Van Dyck, George Digby, later 2nd Earl of Bristol, Dulwich Art Gallery

  Robert Boyle, engraved by George Vertue from a portrait by F. Kerseboom

  Samuel Cooper, Thomas Hobbes

  A. Verrio, G. Kneller and J. Thornhill, Sir Christopher Wren, Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford

  Robert Hooke, ‘A Louse’, Micrographia, 1665

  Wenceslaus Hollar, frontispiece to Thomas Sprat, The History of the Royal Society, 1667

  Samuel Cooper, Frances Teresa Stuart

  Thomas Johnson, The King’s and the Queen’s Baths at Bath, 1675, British Museum

  The Sheldonian Theatre, David Loggan, Oxonia Illustrata, 1675

  Jane Myddleton

  Lady Denham, engraved after a Lely portrait, by E. Bocquet, 1808

  Charles Sackville, Lord Buckhurst, later Earl of Dorset

  Wenceslaus Hollar, West Central London, 1658

  The Comical Revenge, or Love in a Tub, 1715 engraving, Montagu Summers, Restoration Theatre (1934)

  Proverbs, from a traditional pack of cards, reprinted in 1780

  Wenceslaus Hollar, The Royal Exchange

  John Michael Wright, The Family of Sir Robert Vyner, 1673, National Portrait Gallery

  Surat in the seventeenth century

  Amsterdam from the Ij, from Caspar Commelin, Beschryving der Stad Amsterdam, 1665

  Wenceslaus Hollar, a Dutch warship, 1630s

  John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, engraving after a painting by Lely

  John Hayls, Samuel Pepys, 1666, National Portrait Gallery

  Plague broadsheet

  London’s Loud Cryes to the Lord, British Museum

  The Battle of Lowestoft, Italian engraving, Rijksmusuem, Amsterdam

  William van de Velde the elder, The Four Days Battle, c. 1666, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

  Holmes’s Bonfire, 8 August 1666, National Maritime Museum

  John Leake’s survey, engraved by Wenceslaus Hollar, Map of the Destruction wrought by the Great Fire of London, 1667

  Christopher Wren and John Evelyn, plans for rebuilding the City of London

  Poster for a sermon by William Sancroft, 1666

  Jacob Huysmans (attrib.), Portrait of a Man, possibly Charles Boyle, Viscount Dungarnan, Lord Clifford, Private collection

  Wenceslaus Hollar, The Swan and the Stork, from Ogilby’s Aesopics, 1668

 

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