The Later Stuarts - A Glorious Restoration?
John Morrill argues that recent scholarship is re-shaping our view of the fortunes of monarchy and Parliament between 1660 and 1688.
The Restoration was the clear, firm settlement that failed; the Glorious Revolution the deeply ambiguous one that succeeded. The Restoration was predicated upon the Declaration issued by the Convention Parliament on May 8th, 1660:
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