Charles II Studies which marked so radical a

which marked so radical a departure from tradition that even a relatively "avant garde" book like Ellard's became practically irrelevant overnight

which is all the more reason they should be read—not as a proud act of dissent but in order to gain a different perspective

A great admiral who completed the Stuart project of the Royal Navy

thinking incorrectly that early Christians worshiped "versus populum")

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Charles II Studies which marked so radical aHardback 252 pp. A re typeset premium edition of Belloc's classic text In an unstable, changing nation, capsized by rebellion, monarchy was still the very stuff of England. When the doomed Republic (with its taxation, theft, and tyranny) broke down, the exiled son of the murdered king mounted his life's mission restoration of the Crown. A great helmsman of the state, and beloved of the people, Charles II weathered a tempestuous course with genius, but