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Greeting’s Folks…..

29th. May is 'Royal Oak Day' or 'Oak Apple Day'.
The date celebrates the escape and restoration of King Charles II.
After his exile, the king entered London on 29th. May 1660, his birthday.

After the Battle of Worcester, Charles II famously hid in an oak tree
in the woods of Boscobel House.
Royal Oak Day was celebrated by placing oak leaves
in the hat and branches over the door.

MIKE.

After the death of his first wife, James remarried the beautiful young Italian Catholic, Mary Beatrice of Modena

Ar see now wasn't he the James who come over to Ireland for a scrap with good King Billy {William III ~ who methinks was married to James daughter} in the glorious revolution {the battle of the Boyne} x

Well Mel,

Whatever, you have just restored my admiration for my childhood history teacher, Mrs Sweeting. Bless her heart and soul.

Still not sure that Robin Hood didn't hide up a tree though?

Hello Mike *offers hand to shake* ~ great the royal oak so was he a coward or misunderstood?

think that was Friar Tuck Gordon

Gordon see I think the mystery of Robin Hood can be another days lesson lol x

not sure Mel but while he was hiding up the tree he scoffing bread and wine x

quite an interestin character was Charles II heard of Boscobel house n woods x

Wat no cake!

no cake but might have had some cheese x

cheese is good lol

so did England convert back to Catholasim when Charles II married his Portuguese Princess? x

think soMel until Titus Oats started to make himself heard

In 1660 Charles II said that everyone should be allowed to practise their own religion that he had had enough of religious bigotry.

However by 1662 he had been pressurised by the Anglican Church and those vicars/ministers of religion who had either not been ordained by the church or had practised the religion which was similar to United Reform were (no trappings/statues)- unless they took an oath - ousted from the church.

They were also banned from staying in the area they lived in and had to move at least 10 miles (it may have been 20) from their previous church. By the 1670's these men were beginning to apply for licences for meeting houses (usually their own homes or that of a bretheren).

One vicar from the south of England (who had actually been offered the Bishopric of Winchester if he would renounce his beliefs and return to the Anglican church) travelled to Scotland in December 1661 to be ordained into the Scottish Presbyterian Church.

Catholism was still underground I believe

So Charles 2 didn't get his head chopped off?

Wow thanks Chris so he was fed up and left England to itself! x

Oh my goodness Rod ~ Oats n Tonge proper religeous nuts if ever there were any x

No - just his Daddy!!!

And, ahem, the famous name that is famously missing from all this is, ahem, mine.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Monck,_1st_Duke_of_Albemarle


George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, KG (6 December 1608 – 3 January 1670) was an English soldier and politician and a key figure in the restoration of Charles II.

... He forced the dissolution of the Rump Parliament, while at the same time breaking up, as a matter affecting discipline, the political camarillas that had formed in his own regiments. He was now master of the situation.

Though he protested his adherence to republican principles, it was a matter of common knowledge that the new parliament would have a strong Royalist colour. Monck himself, now in communication with Charles II, accepted the latter's Declaration of Breda, which was largely based on Monck's recommendations. The new parliament met on 25 April 1660, and on 1 May voted the restoration of the monarchy.

Charles II rewarded Monck suitably for his services in restoring him to his throne. He was knighted, invested with the Order of the Garter, and made Master of the Horse in the King's household. Charles also raised him to the Peerage as Duke of Albemarle, Earl of Torrington, in the County of Devon, Baron Monck, of Potheridge in the County of Devon, Baron Beauchamp, of Beauchamp in the County of Devon, and Baron of Teyes, in the County of Devon, and he received a pension of £700 a year.



And 200 years later, some relation of his may or may not have had an alliance with my grx2 grandmother and produced my gr-grfather and his sister. ;)

I should have made it clear - the Vicar in question returned to the south and stuck to his presbyterian beliefs but had to leave the area he was living and preaching in to move.

Actually up to about 4/5 years ago his name was not on the Board of Vicars in the anglican church and then it was amended around that time.