The Restoration of Charles II, 1658-1660

San Marino, California: The Huntington Library, 1955. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Good. ciii, 383 pages. Footnotes. Epilogue. Index. This is a continuation of the twenty volume history of England which S. R. Gardiner had brought from 1603 to 1656, and Sir Charles Firth had brought to Cromwell's death early in September, 1658. It is, therefore, a continuation of the twenty volumes of those great historians. DJ discoloration inside front board and inside front free endpaper. Godfrey Davies, FBA (1892 - 1957) was a respected English historian of the 17th century. The son of Sir Thomas Davies, he was born in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, and was educated at Chipping Campden Grammar School and was elected to a Townsend Scholarship at Pembroke College, Oxford in 1910. His most widely used works today are his contribution to the Oxford History of England on The Early Stuarts and his Bibliography of the Seventeenth Century. He was a librarian at the Huntington Library and was elected a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy in 1955. The great contribution of this book is that it incorporates the results of an examination of many hundreds of contemporary tracts and newsbooks. The Restoration of the Stuart monarchy in the kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland took place in 1660 when King Charles II returned from exile in Europe. The preceding period of the Protectorate and the civil wars, came to be known as the Interregnum (1649-1660). The term Restoration is also used to describe the period of several years after, in which a new political settlement was established. It is very often used to cover the whole reign of Charles II (1660-1685) and often the brief reign of his younger brother James II (1685-1688).