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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Historical Documents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

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
S
ociety
, 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

Anna Maria Brudenell, Countess of Shrewsbury
, engraving after a painting by Lely

King of Spades from
The English Counties
, by Robert Morden, 1676

Margaret Cavendish, frontispiece to
Plays, Never before Printed,
1668

The Peace of Breda medal, Jan Roettier, 1667, British Museum

The Dutch raid on the Medway
, William Schellinks, 1667, National Maritime Museum

Unknown artist,
Andrew Marvell
, National Portrait Gallery

Clarendon House, contemporary engraving

Jacob de Later, mezzotint,
William III

Studio of John Greenhill,
Anthony Ashley Cooper, later Earl of Shaftesbury
, Private Collection

Francis Barlow,
The Last Horse Race, 1684
, engraved 1687

Moll Davis, engraved after a contemporary miniature by E. Bocquet, 1808

James, Duke of Monmouth

Nell Gwyn
, Simon Verelst,
c
. 1670

John Riley,
Sir William Coventry

Robert Nanteuil,
Louis XIV
,
c
. 1670, Uffizi Gallery, Florence

Romeyn de Hooghe, Louis XIV chasing Charles with gold, British Library

A political pack, produced
c
. 1690

Playing card of the Popish Plot,
c
. 1678,
Gentleman’s Magazine
, 1833

James II and Mary of Modena leave Whitehall in 1688

Frontispiece,
The Compleate Gamster

From Boscobel to Whitehall

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