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210. — See also Anquetil Lotiis XIV. Ia Cour et le Regent, tome i. P. 46. Note 35, Page 104. Exhausted themselves in festivals and rejoicings for his return. Bishop Burnet confirms this account. "With the restoration of the king, " says he, " a spirit of extravagant joy spread over the nation, that brought on with it the throwing off the very professions of virtue and piety. All ended in entertainments and drunkenness, which overrun the three kingdoms to such a degree, that it very much corrupt...ed all their morals. Under the colour of drinking the king's health, there were great disorders, and much riot every where : and the pretences of reU- gion, both in those of the hypocritical sort, and of the more honest, but no less pernicious enthusiasts, gave great advantages, as well as they furnished much matter to the profane mockers of true piety. " — History of his own Times, vol. I. , p. 127, 8vo edit. Voltaire says, King Charles " was received at Dover by twenty thousand of his subjects, who fell upon their knees before him ; and I have been told by some old men who were of this number, that hardly any of those who were present could refrain frc-m tears.
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