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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 5682598, member: 110504&quot;]...Thanks, [USER=110350]@DonnaML[/USER], for your explication of the context.&nbsp; Which is Just Fine, Thank you, despite your protestations about what you&#039;ve read.&nbsp; ...All I have on the period is a collection of very general secondary sources (how general? covering the entire 17th century --for England, but, Still...), and two on the reign of Charles II.</p><p>Especially in light of [USER=14873]@jamesicus[/USER]&#039;s magnificent crowns, it&#039;s worth noting that Charles II spent his exile, up to his coronation in 1660 (hence the Restoration), on the Continent, primarily in&nbsp; France.&nbsp; He was a &#039;Crypto-Catholic,&#039; being given Last Rites by a priest on his deathbed in 1685.&nbsp; </p><p>Charles II had Batches of children, several of whom he ennobled ...but none of them legitimate.&nbsp; His younger brother and successor, James II, legislated all sorts of religious toleration, not only for Catholics but for Protestants to the left of the Anglican consensus --including, if memory serves, Quakers.&nbsp; But he was much more forthcoming about being a practicing Catholic ...which was enough to p-ss people off.&nbsp; He was overthrown in 1688.&nbsp; ...That&#039;s where the term &#039;Jacobite&#039; comes from, in reference to adherents of the Stuarts into the 18th century.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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