England, Interrupted: The Interregnum and Restoration, 1650-1685
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The Real End of the Restoration Era
The king had kidney disease, probably fed by alcohol and venereal disease. One morning in february, he was shaving himself, and he had a seizure,. His doctors rushed in, and for days they repeatedly bleaded him to try to draw out the supposed poison in his body. They were really throwing everything they could at the wall, thinking some something would heal him. But none of it helped, probably it hurt. And finally, one morning he is extremely weak, and he asks to see his children and his various mistresses who come to say good bye to him. On his death bed, he converts and is received into the roman catholic church, and then he
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