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unusual facts about Restoration of Charles II



Robert Gookin

Under the Commonwealth he received considerable grants of forfeited land, which, in order to secure at the approach of the Restoration of Charles II, he conveyed to Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, taking a lease of them for one hundred years.

Sir Robert Slingsby, 1st Baronet

At the Restoration, he was given his father's old office of Controller of the Navy, and made first and last of the Slingsby baronets of Newcells.


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Bedgebury National Pinetum

whose Colepeper heirs, financed by mining clay-ironstone on the estate, were resident until at the time of the restoration of Charles II, and who created an ornamental park on the Bedgebury estate.

George Albemarle

George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle (1608 – 1670), English soldier and politician and a key figure in the restoration of Charles II

History of Perth, Scotland

The restoration of Charles II was not without incident, and with the Act of Settlement came the Jacobite Risings, to which Perth was supportive.

John King, 1st Baron Kingston

Having worked hard for the restoration of Charles II, he was created on 4 September 1660 an Irish peer by the title of Baron Kingston, of Kingston in the County of Dublin granted at Westminster on 4 September 1660, was sworn of the Irish privy council, and was appointed on 19 March 1660–1 a commissioner of the court of claims for the settlement of Ireland.

Piel Island

In 1662, following the restoration of Charles II, the lordship of Furness was given to the Duke of Albemarle and this included the castle and parts of the island.

Robert Moray

Following the restoration of Charles II, Moray was one founders of the Royal Society at its first formal meeting on Wednesday 28 November 1660, at the premises of Gresham College on Bishopsgate, at which Christopher Wren, Gresham Professor of Astronomy, delivered a lecture.