Contextual Studies 1 ( The Double Dealer )

Restoration was a time of parties and lots of them, after King Charles the second came into power, but before him King Charles the First who had be known to have conflict with his own parliament about how he thought he had the right to govern according to his own conscience. Know his political and Religious believes where the main cause of reformed groups such as the puritans and Calvinists and these groups thought his views were too Catholic. Charles the First forged an alliance with Scotland, however by the end of 1648 Oliver Cromwell had taken control of England with his New Model Army, The Roundheads, this was the result of a civil war as the parliament didn’t agree with Charles’s views, but there were men who stood by Charles that were known as the Cavaliers an army of royalists, eventually Charles the First was tried, convicted and executed for high treason, which took an executioner two hacks with his sword to complete the execution.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4b0G_auKCI (1)

Oliver Cromwell after then continued to dominate the Common Wealth, which was short lived in all fairness, and was also a member of the Rump Parliament at one point, however Cromwell was forced to leave Ireland in 1650 in order to invade the scots as a result of them proclaiming Charles the Second, Charles the First’s Son, as their King, however in 1651 Charles II was defeated and was forced to fled to Europe, and Oliver Cromwell then became Virtual Dictator of England, Scotland and Ireland, whilst Charles II lived in the next 9 years in exile in France, The Dutch Republic and The Spanish Netherlands. In 1658 Oliver Cromwell’s death which then followed a Political Crisis, and eventually the restoration of a Monarchy, and so Charles the second was invited back to Britain, And so the restoration period began.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA5abHKvUBQ (2)

 

(1) + (2) - Both videos shown to us in class by Laura, and can be found on YouTube.