{"product_id":"2940015830620","title":"HISTORY OF KING CHARLES THE SECOND OF ENGLAND","description":"CONTENTS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   I. INFANCY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  II. PRINCE CHARLES'S MOTHER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e III. QUEEN HENRIETTA'S FLIGHT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  IV. ESCAPE OF THE CHILDREN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   V. THE PRINCE'S RECEPTION AT PARIS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  VI. NEGOTIATIONS WITH ANNE MARIA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e VII. THE ROYAL OAK OF BOSCOBEL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVIII. THE KING'S ESCAPE TO FRANCE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  IX. THE RESTORATION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   X. THE MARRIAGE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  XI. CHARACTER AND REIGN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e XII. CONCLUSION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINFANCY.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKing Charles the Second was the son and successor of King Charles the\u003cbr\u003eFirst. These two are the only kings of the name of Charles that have\u003cbr\u003eappeared, thus far, in the line of English sovereigns. Nor is it very\u003cbr\u003eprobable that there will soon be another. The reigns of both these\u003cbr\u003emonarchs were stained and tarnished with many vices and crimes, and\u003cbr\u003edarkened by national disasters of every kind, and the name is thus\u003cbr\u003econnected with so many painful associations in the minds of men, that\u003cbr\u003eit seems to have been dropped, by common consent, in all branches of\u003cbr\u003ethe royal family.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe reign of Charles the First, as will be seen by the history of his\u003cbr\u003elife in this series, was characterized by a long and obstinate contest\u003cbr\u003ebetween the king and the people, which brought on, at last, a civil\u003cbr\u003ewar, in which the king was defeated and taken prisoner, and in the end\u003cbr\u003ebeheaded on a block, before one of his own palaces. During the last\u003cbr\u003estages of this terrible contest, and before Charles way himself taken\u003cbr\u003eprisoner, he was, as it were, a fugitive and an outlaw in his own\u003cbr\u003edominions. His wife and family were scattered in various foreign lands,\u003cbr\u003ehis cities and castles were in the hands of his enemies, and his oldest\u003cbr\u003eson, the prince Charles, was the object of special hostility. The\u003cbr\u003eprince incurred, therefore, a great many dangers, and suffered many\u003cbr\u003eheavy calamities in his early years. He lived to see these calamities\u003cbr\u003epass away, and, after they were gone, he enjoyed, so far as his own\u003cbr\u003epersonal safety and welfare were concerned, a tranquil and prosperous\u003cbr\u003elife. The storm, however, of trial and suffering which enveloped the\u003cbr\u003eevening of his father's days, darkened the morning of his own. The\u003cbr\u003elife of Charles the First was a river rising gently, from quiet springs,\u003cbr\u003ein a scene of verdure and sunshine, and flowing gradually into rugged\u003cbr\u003eand gloomy regions, where at last it falls into a terrific abyss,\u003cbr\u003eenveloped in darkness and storms. That of Charles the Second, on the\u003cbr\u003eother hand, rising in the wild and rugged mountains where the parent\u003cbr\u003estream was engulfed, commences its course by leaping frightfully from\u003cbr\u003eprecipice to precipice, with turbid and foaming waters, but emerges\u003cbr\u003eat last into a smooth and smiling land, and flows through it\u003cbr\u003eprosperously to the sea.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121290756336,"sku":"2940015830620","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015830620","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}