How To Use Charles ii In A Sentence
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Coffee was first "dramatized", so to speak, in England, where we read that Charles II and the Duke of Yorke attended the first performance of
All About Coffee
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Indeed, the preceding year, the royal houses of Holland, Austria, and England had concluded a treaty of alliance at the Hague, with the intention of plucking the crown of Spain from the head of Philip V, and placing it on that of an archduke to whom they prematurely gave the title of Charles III.
Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
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Thus, if we are writing about Charles II., it would be in very bad taste to avoid repeating "he" by using such periphrases as the following: "The third of the Stewarts hated business," "the Merry Monarch died in the fifty-fourth year of his age," &c.
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Such was the foundation f, f what is now called tl; c national debt: for a few long annuities, created in the reign of Charles II. by no means dcferve that appellation.
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Charles III added to the grounds and doubled the size of the palace by adding an east wing that mirrored the original building.
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The Venetians will be following the route used by gondolas chosen by Charles II to escort his Royal barge in 1662 from Hampton Court to Whitehall.
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This important national anniversary was associated with Charles II hiding in an oak tree at Boscobel after the rout of his army at Worcester in September 1651.
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At the revocation itself, not less than half a million escaped from bigoted France to Holland, Germany, and England; and to those in the latter country, Charles II., then on the British throne, granted letters of denization under the great seal, and Parliament relieved them from 'importation duties and passport fees.'
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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In 1651, Oliver Cromwell's army defeated the forces of Charles II at Worcester.
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The Farthing Office was a part of the Mint and Charles II had introduced, in 1672, the copper half-penny and farthing with the Britannia type.
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She had even more cause for concern as her son's peers were none other than the wickedly decadent court of Charles II!
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Spain, a kind of "mammet" (as the English called the Richard II. who appeared up in Islay, having escaped from Pomfret Castle), had for his first wife a daughter of Henrietta, the favorite sister of our Charles II.
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Although now home to the semi-professional football team the land has been used for cricket, athletics, tennis and rugby league since it started off life in 1681 as part of Kersal Moor racecourse, during the reign of Charles II.
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He avoided punishment for his own cooperation with republicanism, while he helped convince the government of Charles II not to execute John Milton for his antimonarchical writings and revolutionary activities.
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Three of his pictures travelled to London as a gift from the Dutch States General to King Charles II on his restoration to the throne in 1660.
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The crown, sword, and scepter were then buried under the floor of the parish kirk until the Restoration of Charles II.
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This book deals with the institution of the House of Lords, rather than the social and economic history of the peerage, and especially during the critical period of the reign of King Charles II.
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By Royal Seal, King Charles III of Spain authorizes the outrageously wealthy Count of Regla, Pedro Romero de Terreros, to start a pawn-shop in Mexico City.
Mexico this month - June
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Now again enlarged with many precedents and resolutions of the quaeres contained in the former impressions: and the statutes of King Charles I and His Majesty King Charles II. added under their several titles.
Inventory of Robert Carter's Estate, November [1733]
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When Charles II returned to become king of England in 1660, those men who had signed his father's death warrant were tried as regicides (the murderer of a king) and executed.
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In dress he apes the dandiacal associated with Charles II.
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Rochester is banished from the court for writing and mounting a play that ridicules Charles II.
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Ah yes, the anti-monarchist musings that led directly to the abdication of King Charles III.
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Charles II, considering it hopeless to continue the war in an impoverished and exhausted land, led a Scots royalist army into England.
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The Whigs owed their name, like the Tories, to the exclusion crisis of Charles II's reign.
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The Restoration of Charles II in 1660 took place on Parliament's terms.
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No new settlements were chartered until after Charles II assumed the throne in 1660.
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I don't even remember the words to nursery rhymes, let alone which ones are about the plague and which are about the ascension of King Charles II.
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The last Scottish coronation, that of Charles II in 1651, was a hasty business in the midst of adversity: Charles was required to swear to the covenant, and anointing was dropped as a superstitious and popish practice.
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Monck reopened negotiations with Charles II, effected his restoration, and met him on the beach at Dover.
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Should they treat the lads to the allegorical Absalom and Achitophel, in which the poet uses the Old Testament story of Absalom's rebellion against King David as a device for attacking Monmouth, the illegitimate son of Charles II, along with his fellow participants in the exclusion crisis, an episode with which most members of the current cabinet are no doubt familiar?
Only a sadist would inflict Dryden on our schoolchildren
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It would appear from a petition presented by him to Charles II. in 1660, setting forth his sufferings in the royal cause, and praying for restoral to certain offices which he had enjoyed under Charles I., that as early as the year 1637 he had been employed by the King on a mission into Scotland, *
Industrial Biography
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With Charles II. the embroidered gloves seem to have vanished along with the stumpwork pictures, of which more anon.
Chats on Old Lace and Needlework
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The Whigs owed their name, like the Tories, to the exclusion crisis of Charles II's reign.
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In 1662, the Society was granted its charter by Charles II.
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-- 'Specimens of the British Poets', by Thomas Campbell, London, 1819, ii. 134, 'sq'.] [Footnote 5: Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset [1637-1706], esteemed the most accomplished man of his day, was alike distinguished in the voluptuous court of Charles II. and the gloomy one of William III.
Byron's Poetical Works, Volume 1
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Today: A review of monies allotted for the renovation of Hampton Court Palace, where our new Queen Catherine of Braganza and King Charles II will spend their honeymoon.
Exit the Actress
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Based on (1) the marriage of Margaret (daughter of Charles II of Naples) and Charles of Valois, the parents of King Philip VI; and (2) the claims of the so-called second house of Anjou founded by Duke Louis I (d. 1384) of Anjou, count of Provence.
2. Sicily and Naples
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Although now home to the semi-professional football team the land has been used for cricket, athletics, tennis and rugby league since it started off life in 1681 as part of Kersal Moor racecourse, during the reign of Charles II.
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His taunting of the king and a scurrilous lampoon of Charles II in front of the French ambassador helps to seal his fate.
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Some studies of the period declare their purposes by featuring a personage - absent, I would guess, from all school wallcharts of the Kings and Queens of England - called James III (and sometimes a monarch called Charles III).
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The dissolution of the Jesuits also gave impetus to reformers in Charles III's Spain, where secondary schools, such as the Madrid seminary of the nobility, were created to educate the hidalgos.
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The next bouleversement, which brought in William and Mary, declared that Charles II's oath against taking up arms was no longer necessary.
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By the time he died, the English ruling class was ready to do almost anything to restore the monarchy, and Charles II returned to England in 1660.
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CHARLES II. playing at tennis with a dean, who struck the ball well, the king said, "That's a good stroke for a _dean_.
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It was this committee that took the deliberate decision that the coronation of Charles II would be conducted as if the previous ten years had not happened.
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But it was restored as a chapel in 1662 by Charles II for his wife, Queen Catherine of Braganza, who established a friary in its grounds.
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Since Charles II, James's brother, was unlikely to have further legitimate children, James's remarriage was imperative and a hunt for suitable partners began.
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In order to stop the fire's rapid spread, which was being fanned by strong easterly winds, King Charles II ordered that all houses in the fire's path be blown up or pulled down.
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In 1662, Pepys described in detail a ball given by King Charles II which began with the dancing of a branle.
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The use of the Forest as an exclusive hunting ground waned during the reign of Charles II and the office of "Keeper of the Walk" became a Grace and Favour appointment.
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Disappointed in this, they turned in 1650 to Charles II, who signed the Covenant, but then abjured it at his RESTORATION, condemning it as an unlawful oath.
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He was knighted in 1671 by Charles II, and lies buried in the church of St Peter Mancroft, Norwich.
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The deprivation of nonjuring clergymen had been proceeding since the establishment of the new Government, and in 1690 an act was passed restoring to their parishes the Presbyterian clergy who had been ejected under Charles II.
An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707)
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After Charles I's execution and the abolition of the monarchy in 1649, the Prince of Wales became - at least to Royalists - the exiled King Charles II.
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He spent much of his career as a political conspirator, actively working to overthrow the government of Charles II of England.
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Charles II was shot in the Czech Republic on location and in the studio.
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a kind of 'mammet' (as the English called the Richard II. who appeared up in Islay, having escaped from Pomfret Castle), had for his first wife a daughter of Henrietta, the favourite sister of our Charles II.
Historical Mysteries
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Her stepfather is Viscount Astor and she is a direct descendant of Nell Gywn, mistress to Charles II.
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Charles II appoints John Flamsteed to the new post of Astronomer Royal.
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Pacification of Pinerolo, with France: the duke of Savoy stopped the persecution of Vaudois and Charles II was to be expelled from France.
1652
