Excerpt from Larned's History of the World, or Seventy Centuries of the Life of Mankind, Vol. 4 of 5: A Survey of History From the Earliest Known Records Through All Stages of Civilization, in All Important Countries, Down to the Present Time; With an Introductory Account of Prehistoric Peoples When, in May, 1660, the English nation restored its ancient monarchy, and welcomed Charles II. To the throne from which his father had been cast down, it was tired of a military despotism; tired of Puritan austerity; tired of revolution and political uncertainty;-so tired that it threw itself down at the feet of the most worthless member of the most worthless royal family in its history, and gave itself up to him without a condition or a guarantee. For twenty iive years it endured both oppression and disgrace at his hands. It suffered him to make a brothel of his court; to empty the national purse into the pockets of his shameless mistresses and debauched companions; to revive the ecclesiastical tyranny Of Laud; to make a crime of the religious creeds and the worship of more than half his subjects; to sell himself and sell the honor of England to the king of France for a secret pension, and to be in every possible way as ignoble and despicable as his father had been arrogant and false. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.