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The Stuart Restoration was the reinstatement in May 1660 of the Stuart monarchy in England, Scotland, and Ireland. ... Lord Protector from 1658 to 1659, ...
In the chaos following the death of Cromwell in September 1658, the Rump was reinstalled in May 1659, and in February 1660 General George Monck allowed the members barred in 1648 to retake their seats, so that they could pass the necessary legislation to allow the Stuart Restoration and dissolve the Long Parliament.
He called the Third Protectorate Parliament in 1659. [13] Along with the Army, it was unable to form a stable government. After seven months, the Army removed Cromwell; on 6 May 1659, it reinstalled the Rump Parliament. The Rump Parliament issued a declaration establishing a "Commonwealth without a king, single person, or house of lords". [14]
He was made one of the approvers of ministers, ‘according to the presbyterian way,’ in London on 14 March 1659. After the Stuart Restoration, in November 1660, he, with other ministers in London, made an ‘acknowledgment’ to the king ‘for his Gracious Concessions... concerning Ecclesiastical affairs,’ but he was ejected from All ...
The New Model Army or New Modelled Army was a standing army formed in 1645 by the Parliamentarians during the First English Civil War, then disbanded after the Stuart Restoration in 1660. It differed from other armies employed in the 1639 to 1653 Wars of the Three Kingdoms in that members were liable for service anywhere in the country, rather ...
Tichborne was one of the conservators of liberty set up by the New Model Army in 1659. He was sentenced to death after the Stuart Restoration, and imprisoned for life in the Tower of London. Tichborne was also the author of two religious works. [3] Burke's Peerage, page 1436. Berry, Genealogies of Hants, Page 28. Berry, Genealogies of Kent ...
Following the Stuart Restoration in May 1660, Harrison was the first person to be found guilty of regicide and then hanged, drawn and quartered on 13 October. One reason was his justification of violent action against "un-Godly rulers", which meant he was viewed as an ongoing threat to the re-established order.
It was part of a wider Restoration in the British Isles that included the return of the Stuart dynasty to the thrones of England and Ireland in the person of Charles II. As military commander of the Commonwealth's largest armed force, George Monck , governor-general in Scotland, was instrumental in the restoration of Charles II, who was ...