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Restoration: 1660 Charles II, born in 1630. 1649 escaped to France. 1650 Scottish proclamation of his kingship 1651 led a Scottish force of 10,000 into a dismal defeat by Cromwells forces. Charles II died in February 1685 from complications following a stroke. John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647-1680) Graduated from Wadham College, Oxford at 12yrs. Receives his MA at 14. Already infamous for his debauchery. Marries Elizabeth Mallet in 1667. Leader of the “Merry Gang”—a group court wits that included Charles Sedley, Sir George Etherege, and Lord Buckhurst. Rochester 1684: Sodom: or the Quintessence of Debauchery. A play attributed to Rochester has the distinction of being the first literary work censored in England for obscenity. Rochester Known for his great love of theater. He coached the great actress Elizabeth Barry. At age of 33, he lay on his deathbed, perhaps with syphilis. He had a profound religious conversion in the last year of his life when he renounced atheism. Rochester Crowning his Monkey “He was a graceful and well-shaped Person, tall and well-made, if not a little too slender: He was exactly well bred. . .He had a strange Vivacity of thought, and vigour of expression: His Wit had a subtility and sublimity both, that were scarce imitable” Bishop Burnet (1680) * *