The Restless Republic1649. King Charles I had been executed. A quarter of a million had died in the Second English Civil War. Two hundred great houses stood in ruins, with hundreds of villages and towns left battered and broken. The monarchy, the House of Lords, and the Church of England were all abruptly abolished. What next? This is the story of 1649 to 1660, the eleven years when England, Wales, and later Scotland and Ireland were governed as a republic. In the midst