Daniel’s Reviews > The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689 > Status Update

Finished ch 18 about societal advances and positive trends of the 1670s. Seemed like good times compared to the first 70 years of the century. Economic booms, famine and plagues ending for good, healthy population growth, lots of scientific and mathematical advances.

Late century. One theory as to why young women were not marrying as much, was that they were enjoying life too much with so many consumer goods to buy

Author is slightly libtarded and goes on about patriarchy.

The great london fire of 1661 flattens the city but somewhat helps the new king by destroying london’s walls and gates, making them less likely to be defiant in the future

Under Charles II, they start executing the old parliamentarians still alive who had a major hand in killing Charles I and they posthumously dug up the graves of the rest of them, hung their long decayed bodies and threw them in a pit. If Oliver Cromwell accepted kingship when it was offered to him twice, this would have been avoided. He couldve stepped down when all royalists were crushed.

The majority royalist parliament votes to restore the King and most of England rejoices.

Onto Part Four, 1658-1689

Under Cromwell, the quaker Naylor is brutally punished for dressing up as Jesus in a small Quaker parade & acting like a prophet. He is pilloried, whipped hundreds of times walking through London, his tongue his bored through, he is branded on his forehead with a B for blasphemy, and sentenced to brutal hard labor in prison for 3 years. Puritans are nutcases