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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Royalty Restored/London Under Charles II by J. Fitzgerald Molloy: son, Henry, then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. But if the nation
in its dejection made no signs of resistance, neither did it give
any indications of satisfaction, and Richard was proclaimed "with
as few expressions of joy as had ever been observed on a like
occasion." For a brief while a stupor seemed to lull the
factious party spirit which was shortly to plunge the country
into fresh difficulties. The Cromwellians and Republicans
foresaw resistless strife, and the Royalists quietly and
hopefully abided results.
Nor had they long to wait. In the new Parliament assembled in
January, 1659, the Republicans showed themselves numerous and
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