Ideology and Politics on the Eve of Restoration: Newcastle's Advice to Charles II, Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 159)

by Thomas P. Slaughter

Among the Clarendon papers held by the Bodleian Library and the Portland Manuscripts appear copies of a long and detailed letter of advice written to Charles II on the eve of the Restoration. The "Advice" was atributed to Edwad Hyde, Earl of Clarendon and Lord Chancellor during the early years of Charles's reign. In 1903, however, Arthur Strong found that the handwriting of the Welbeck copy was identifical to other documents written by William Cavendish,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871691590
• ISBN13: 9780871691590
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
• Length: 80 Pages