The Restoration of the Monarchy

Charles Spencer says politicians and the aristocracy were falling over themselves to show their allegiance to the concept of monarchy at times with utter ruthlessness. Parliament was very quickly into action wanting to show its hatred of Cromwell people just suddenly declared that they had always been royalist, he says. There was a need for vengeance and that need centered very much on Cromwell, his son-in-law Henry Arton and John Bradshaw who'd killed Charles I. The three corpses were exhumed and they were dragged out of Westminster Abbey, they were stored in an inn overnight,. On the 12th anniversary of Charles I death  they were hauled through London, these decaying bodies of men who had