
The Restoration: everything you wanted to know
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The Staart Court in Waiting
After richard cromwell resigns. Thet then follows really quite a bewildering series of er constitutional experiments. Er there's a lot of affection for what's known as the good old cause, re establishing a more pure republic. But there's also increasingly irreconcilable divisions between the army and many on politicians. And there's also just sheer constitutional exhaustion among many people in just a desire for regularity. There is a stuart court in exile, in waiting. They need to be sufficiently encouraging to royalists through those 11 years but not so foolish as to jump every time there's some sort of seal not uprising. Many times they simply would have been swallowed by theprot
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