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Posts in Clay Lane for ‘Charles II returns to London’

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The Royal Oak by Samuel Pepys

In 1680, Samuel Pepys sat down with Charles II to record how, many years before, a bold double-bluff saved the King from Cromwell’s men.

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The Return of King Charles II by John Evelyn

Almost nine years after Oliver Cromwell’s army drove him from England, King Charles II returned at their invitation, and John Evelyn was there to see it.

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