Merry Monarch

Doleful Reign of the so-called Merry Monarch, Charles II by

The Touchstone of Fortune Charles Major 1884

The Merry Monarch lived through that night, and died before noon on the next day, which was Friday, the sixth.

A Child's History of England 2007

The Merry Monarch was so exceedingly merry among these merry ladies, and some equally merry (and equally infamous) lords and gentlemen, that he soon got through his hundred thousand pounds, and then, by way of raising

A Child's History of England 2007

THAT the Merry Monarch might be very merry indeed, in the merry times when his people were suffering under pestilence and fire, he drank and gambled and flung away among his favourites the money which the Parliament had voted for the war.

A Child's History of England 2007

William of Orange established a famous character with the whole world; and that the Merry Monarch, adding to and improving on his former baseness, bound himself to do everything the King of France liked, and nothing the

A Child's History of England 2007

Things being in this merry state at home, the Merry Monarch undertook a war with the Dutch; principally because they interfered with an African company, established with the two objects of buying gold-dust and slaves, of which the Duke of York was a leading member.

A Child's History of England 2007

It made a great noise directly, and the Merry Monarch — strongly suspected of having goaded the Scottish people on, that he might have an excuse for a greater army than the Parliament were willing to give him — sent down his son, the Duke of Monmouth, as commander-in-chief, with instructions to attack the Scottish rebels, or Whigs as they were called, whenever he came up with them.

A Child's History of England 2007

'Charles and James Street,' for example, which is a present-day combination of two streets of yore, is jointly commemorative of the days of the Merry Monarch and of his royal but unfortunate brother.

The Story of Madras Glyn Barlow

Altogether, he and the future Merry Monarch must have been very congenial companions.

Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote

It is one of the inns that the Merry Monarch never saw.

Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas