1660-1688

Question 1

G____ M____ orchestrated Charles II’s return by dissolving the R____ Parliament in F____ 1660.

Answer 1

General Monck, Rump, February.

Question 2

The C____ P____ (April–December 1660) invited Charles II to return under the D____ of B____.

Answer 2

Convention Parliament, Declaration of Breda.

Question 3

The D____ of B____ (4 April 1660) promised amnesty for all except for ____ regicides.

Answer 3

Declaration of Breda, 59.

Question 4

What was the amount owed for army arrears as promised in the D____ of B____?

Answer 4

£70,000.

Question 5

C____ II returned to England, landing at D____ on 25 May 1660 and entering L____ on 29 May.

Answer 5

Charles II, Dover, London.

Question 6

What was the annual expenditure of the Crown in 1660?

Answer 6

£1.2 million.

Question 7

The Crown’s ordinary revenue, derived from customs and excise, amounted to £____ per year in 1660.

Answer 7

£800,000.

Question 8

In 1660, what was the shortfall between revenue and expenditure?

Answer 8

£400,000.

Question 9

The C____ P____ retained the T____ A____ of 1641 and abolished the S____ C____.

Answer 9

Convention Parliament, Triennial Act, Star Chamber.

Question 10

What act restored bishops while promising a ‘broad’ Anglican Church?

Answer 10

Worcester House Declaration.

Question 11

The M____ A____ of 1661 gave the king sole control of the army.

Answer 11

Militia Act.

Question 12

The L____ A____ of 1662 imposed strict press c____.

Answer 12

Licensing Act, censorship.

Question 13

The H____ T____ (1662) raised an expected £____ per year, but only raised £____ in 1662.

Answer 13

Hearth Tax, £250,000, £80,000.

Question 14

The C____ C____ (1661) led to the ejection of 1,800 ministers who refused to comply with Anglican rites.

Answer 14

Clarendon Code

Question 15

The C____ Act (1661) purged non-Anglicans from borough governments.

Answer 15

Corporation Act.

Question 16

The S____ A____-D____ W____ (1665–67) cost £____ million.

Answer 16

Second Anglo-Dutch War, £5 million.

Question 17

In 1667, the Dutch burned the English fleet at M____.

Answer 17

Medway.

Question 18

The T____ of D____ (1670) included a secret clause for Charles II to convert to Catholicism in exchange for £____ from Louis XIV.

Answer 18

Treaty of Dover, £375,000.

Question 19

The G____ P____ (1665) led to over ____ deaths in London.

Answer 19

Great Plague, 100,000+.

Question 20

The G____ F____ (1666) destroyed ____ houses in London.

Answer 20

Great Fire, 13,200.

Question 21

The E____ C____ (1679–81) was a conflict between the W____ and T____, with 3 Exclusion Bills failing to bar J____ II.

Answer 21

Exclusion Crisis, Whigs, Tories, James II.

Question 22

The customs revenue fell to £____ per year between 1666–68.

Answer 22

£650,000.

Question 23

How much did the Crown receive from the sale of D____ to France in 1662?

Answer 23

£400,000.

Question 24

Parliament granted £____ million in revenue to James II in 1685.

Answer 24

£2 million.

Question 25

How many people were executed following the crushing of M____’s Rebellion in 1685?

Answer 25

320.

Question 26

What percentage of the army’s officers were Catholic by 1688 under James II?

Answer 26

25%.

Question 27

The D____ of I____ (1687, 1688) suspended the Test Acts under James II.

Answer 27

Declarations of Indulgence.

Question 28

How many Catholic officers were purged from the army by 1688?

Answer 28

25%.

Question 29

What year did William of Orange invade with 15,000 troops to initiate the G____ R____?

Answer 29

1688, Glorious Revolution.

Question 30

In which month and year did James II flee and Parliament declare his 'abdication'?

Answer 30

December 1688.

Question 31

The A____ of R____ (1661) voided all laws passed since 1633 in Scotland.

Answer 31

Act of Rescissory.

Question 32

In Scotland, how many ministers were ejected for refusing to accept bishops?

Answer 32

270.

Question 33

After the Restoration, Catholics in Ireland retained only ____% of the land.

Answer 33

22%.

Question 34

The army of Tyrconnell in 1688 was composed of ____% Catholic rank-and-file.

Answer 34

67%.

Question 35

How many Presbyterian ministers were ejected in 1662?

Answer 35

1,000.

Question 36

By 1689, Richard Frankland’s Academy had trained over ____ dissenting ministers.

Answer 36

100+.

Question 37

Between 1661-64, Quaker leadership, including George Fox, was imprisoned in Scarborough Castle for how many years?

Answer 37

2 years (1664–66).

Question 38

Quaker membership reached ____ by the 1670s.

Answer 38

70,000.

Question 39

The P____ Plot (1678) resulted in the execution of ____ Catholics.

Answer 39

Popish, 35.

Question 40

Who was James II’s secretary implicated in the Popish Plot?

Answer 40

Edward Coleman.

Question 41

Ordinary revenue in 1660 was £____, and by 1684 it had increased to £____.

Answer 41

£800,000, £1.4 million.

Question 42

How much did France provide in subsidies to England in 1670 under the Treaty of Dover?

Answer 42

£375,000.

Question 43

The Second Dutch War (1665-67) cost the Crown £____ million.

Answer 43

£5 million.

Question 44

How much was spent annually on army costs during the 1680s?

Answer 44

£300,000.