Charles II and the Duke of Buckingham

The Merry Monarch and the Aristocratic Rogue

David C Hanrahan

• Publisher: The History Press
• Year: 2006
• Print ISBN: 9780750939171
• eBook ISBN: 9780752494739
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Historical Biographies
• Index: History

Paints a picture of friendship, exile, betrayal, murder, adultery, infamy, alchemy and scandal in royal and courtly circles. Buckingham was brought up in court with the two kings, James II and Charles II - his own father. The author investigates why Charles remained true to his childhood friend despite Buckingham's ingratitude.

NOTES

ABBREVIATIONS

BL	British Library
Burghclere, Buckingham	George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham 1628–1687: A Study in the History of the Restoration
Burghclere, Ormonde	The Life of James, First Duke of Ormonde, 1610–1688
Clarendon, History	Clarendon, Edward, Earl of, History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England (1888 edition, edited by MacRay)
Clarendon, Life	Clarendon, Edward, Earl of, The Life of Edward, Earl of Clarendon, . . . in which is included a Continuation of his History of the Grand Rebellion, written by Himself (1827)
CSP	Calendar of State Papers
HCJ	House of Commons Journal
HLJ	House of Lords Journal
HMC	Historical Manuscripts Commission
Pepys	The Diary of Samuel Pepys
TNA	The National Archives (formerly Public Record Office)

Preface

1 W. Burghclere, George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham 1628–1687: A Study in the History of the Restoration (London: John Murray, 1903), p. 85, quoting Brian Fairfax.

Chapter One

1 R. Lockyer, Buckingham: The Life and Political Career of George Villiers, First Duke of Buckingham 1592–1628 (London and New York: Longman, 1981), p. 452; S.R. Gardiner, A History of England under the Duke of Buckingham and Charles I, 1624–1628 (London, Longman, Green & Co., 1857), vol. 2, p. 335; H.W. Chapman, Great Villiers: A Study of George Villiers Second Duke of Buckingham 1628–1687 (London, Secker & Warburg, 1949), p. 3.

2 Lockyer, Buckingham: The Life, p. 459.

3 HMC, Mar and Kellie MSS, Supplement Report (1930), p. 56.

4 J. Morrill, Stuart Britain: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2000), p. 29.

5 Clarendon, History, vol. 1, p. 37.

6 Sir Edward Coke speaking in the House of Commons.

Chapter Two

1 Burghclere, Buckingham, p. 8.

2 Lockyer, Buckingham: The Life, pp. 457, 460.

3 Ibid., p. 461.

4 Bagwell, p. 87.

5 Burghclere, Buckingham, p. 10.

6 Ibid., pp. 16, 17.

7 I am using the terms Anglican and Anglicanism throughout although they did not come into general use until after 1660. See N. Davies, The Isles, A History (London: Macmillan, 1999), p. 559.

8 P. Gregg, King Charles I (London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1981), p. 157.

9 A. Fraser, King Charles II (London: Arrow, 1998), p. 3.

10 Ibid., p. 11.

11 Chapman, Great Villiers, p. 11.

12 J.H. Wilson, A Rake and His Times: George Villiers 2nd Duke of Buckingham (London: Frederick Muller, 1954), p. 7.

13 Fraser, King Charles II, p. 16.

14 Clarendon, History, vol. 3, p. 381.

15 CSP, Domestic, 1635–6, p. 342.

16 See S.A. Strong (ed.), A Cata...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• One: The Fathers
• Two: The Sons
• Three: The Civil War
• Four: The Years in Exile
• Five: Desertion and Marriage
• Six: The Restoration
• Seven: Cousin and Lover
• Eight: The Nonconformists
• Nine: The Merry Court of Romance and Leisure
• Ten: The Second Dutch War
• Eleven: The Heydon Affair
• Twelve: The Fall of Clarendon
• Thirteen: Moses’ Serpent
• Fourteen: Unfinished Business: Ormonde and Coventry
• Fifteen: The Treaty within a Treaty
• Sixteen: Mistress Trouble
• Seventeen: The Rehearsal
• Eighteen: Blood Ties
• Nineteen: ‘Draw an arrant fop’
• Twenty: The End of the Affair
• Twenty-one: Life in the Country
• Twenty-two: The Popish Plot
• Twenty-three: The Fall of Danby
• Twenty-four: The Exclusion Crisis
• Twenty-five: A Charge of a Personal Nature
• Twenty-six: The Deaths
• Epilogue
• Notes
• Bibliography