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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Royalty Restored/London Under Charles II by J. Fitzgerald Molloy: a story more entertaining than any romance ever written. Here
they must of necessity be mentioned with brevity.
In the year 1645, Charles I., having suffered the loss of many
great battles, became fearful of the danger which threatened his
family and himself. He therefore ordered his son Charles, who
had already retired into the west, to seek refuge in the Scilly
Isles. The prince complied with his desires, and went from
thence to Paris, where his mother, Henrietta Maria, had already
taken shelter, and, after a short stay with her, travelled to the
Hague. Soon after the king was beheaded, the Scots, who regarded
that foul act with great abhorrence, invited Charles to come into
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