Ironically in view of Byrd's own religious beliefs, it was his Anglican church music which came closest to establishing a continuous tradition, at least in the sense that some of it continued to be performed in choral foundations after the Restoration and into the eighteenth century.

Julius Caesar was one of the very few Shakespearean plays that was not adapted during the Restoration period or the eighteenth century.

In the eighteenth century, one observer commented that “ his chapel, it has been said, was designed as a sepulchre in which none but such as were of the royal-blood should ever be interred ; accordingly the will of the founder has been so far observed, that all that have hitherto been admitted are of the highest quality, and can trace their descent from some or other of our ancient kings .” In the intervening years, some people not of noble descent, including Oliver Cromwell, were buried there, but during the Restoration of the monarchy many of those people were disinterred.

As Mark Goldie explains: " Leviathan was a monolithic and unavoidable presence for political writers in Restoration England in a way that in the first half of the eighteenth the Two Treatises was not.

Monasteries were again allowed to form in the 19th century under the Bourbon Restoration.

While the early Restoration Movement had a tradition of itinerant preachers rather than " located Preachers ", during the 20th century a long-term, formally-trained congregational minister became the norm among Churches of Christ.

Gin emerged in England in varying forms as of the early 17th century, and at the time of the Restoration, enjoyed a brief resurgence.

After the Restoration, there was an overall reduction in the power of the crown, and by the 18th century England rivaled the Netherlands for being one of the freest countries in Europe.

For instance, the Godbeites broke from the LDS Church in the late 19th century on the basis of both political and religious liberalism, and in 1985 the Restoration Church of Jesus Christ broke from the LDS Church as an LGBT-friendly denomination.

was the initiator of the unification of Japan under the shogunate in the late 16th century, which ruled Japan until the Meiji Restoration in 1868.

The detailed private diary Pepys kept from 1660 until 1669 was first published in the 19th century, and is one of the most important primary sources for the English Restoration period.

The establishment of the shogunate ( or bakufu ) at the end of the twelfth century saw the beginning of samurai control of Japan for 700 years until the Meiji Restoration in the middle of the nineteenth century.

The re-opened theatres performed many of the plays of the previous era, though often in adapted forms ; new genres of Restoration comedy and spectacle soon evolved, giving English theatre of the later seventeenth century its distinctive character.

* Restoration Movement, a Christian movement originating in the 19th century that seeks to restore the doctrine and practice of the early church

Kenjutsu, which originated with the samurai class of feudal Japan, is the umbrella term for all traditional ( koryū ) schools of Japanese swordsmanship, in particular those that predate the Meiji Restoration and the modern styles of kendo and iaido that emerged from the traditional schools in the late 19th century.

After the Restoration, the play was often revised with a happy ending for audiences who disliked its dark and depressing tone, but since the 19th century Shakespeare's original version has been regarded as one of his supreme achievements.

Restoration work in the late 20th century involved cleaning with electronically controlled intermittent water sprays and ammonium carbonate poultices.

Appearance wise, Hook was more early 18th century rather than the classic Charles II Restoration period.

After the Restoration of the Bourbons in the 19th century, the Conciergerie continued to be used as a prison for high-value prisoners — most notably the future Napoleon III.

Toward the end of the 19th century, an alliance of several of the more powerful daimyo, along with the titular Emperor, finally succeeded in the overthrow of the shogunate after the Boshin War, culminating in the Meiji Restoration.

The Roman Catholic faith is no longer considered the state religion, as it was before the 1789 Revolution and throughout the various, non-republican regimes of the 19th century ( the Restoration, the July Monarchy and the Second Empire ).

The denomination ( known as the Franc Germinal French franc # French Empire and Restoration ) continued in use through the 19th century and later French gold coins in the same denomination were generally referred to as " Napoleons ".

In his career as a playwright, he offended many sections of Restoration and 18th century society, not only by the sexual explicitness of his plays, but also by their messages in defence of women's rights in marriage.

Spain ( known officially as " the Kingdom of Spain ") was assembled in the 15th century from various component kingdoms, of which Portugal seceded in the Portuguese Restoration War while other component kingdoms lost their secession wars.

The tradition of singing Christmas carols in return for alms or charity began in England in the seventeenth century after the Restoration.

In the 17th century, John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester ( 1647 – 80 ) was notorious for obscene verses, many of which were published posthumously in compendiums of poetry by him and other Restoration rakes such as Sir Charles Sedley, Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, and George Etherege.

Together they founded a distinct school of poetry which outlived the chilling influence of the Restoration ..... In Milton's day, most of the Cantabrigians, Crashaw, Joseph Beaumont, Thomas Robinson, and others wrote more or less in their manner.

Thus, the " Restoration " in drama may last until 1700, while in poetry it may last only until 1666 ( see 1666 in poetry ), the annus mirabilis ; and in prose it might end in 1688, with the increasing tensions over succession and the corresponding rise in journalism and periodicals, or not until 1700, when those periodicals grew more stabilized.

Thus, the " Restoration " in drama may last until 1700, while in poetry it may last only until 1666 ( see 1666 in poetry ) and the annus mirabilis ; and in prose it might end in 1688, with the increasing tensions over succession and the corresponding rise in journalism and periodicals, or not until 1700, when those periodicals grew more stabilized.

Similarly, some of the poets who published with the Restoration produced their poetry during the Interregnum.

The Restoration was an age of poetry.

Lyric poetry, in which the poet speaks of his or her own feelings in the first person and expresses a mood, was not especially common in the Restoration period.

The sorts of lyric poetry found later in the Churchyard Poets would, in the Restoration, only exist as pastorals.

– 1708 / 1709 ) was a significant voice in Restoration poetry in England.

However, there is a remarkable amount of invention and specificity in each section, and those topoi he adapts from Classical and other poetry are always given a Restoration application.

He is additionally unique in the literature of the Restoration in being a servant who composed poetry.

England did set the fashion of written constitutions during the Civil War but after the Restoration abandoned them to be taken up later by the American Colonies after their emancipation and then France after the Revolution and the rest of Europe including the European colonies.

During the Meiji Restoration, laws were written that allowed anybody with the money and know-how to construct and operate their own sake breweries.

* Restoration comedy – English comedies written and performed in the Restoration period from 1660 to 1710.

In certain contexts it may be used to cover the whole period of the later Stuart monarchs as far as the death of Queen Anne and the accession of the Hanoverian George I in 1714 ; for example Restoration comedy typically encompasses works written as late as 1710.

Restoration comedy refers to English comedies written and performed in the Restoration period from 1660 to 1710.

Successful Restoration actresses included Charles II's mistress Nell Gwyn, the tragedienne Elizabeth Barry who was famous for her ability to " move the passions " and make whole audiences cry, the 1690s comedienne Anne Bracegirdle, and Susanna Mountfort ( a. k. a. Susanna Verbruggen ), who had many breeches roles written especially for her in the 1680s and 90s.

His other films in the 1990s included Heart and Souls, Only You, Natural Born Killers, Restoration, Two Girls and a Guy, Black and White, Short Cuts, Richard III, and The Last Party, a documentary written by Downey.

The Country Wife is a Restoration comedy written in 1675 by William Wycherley.

The Relapse, or, Virtue in Danger is a Restoration comedy from 1696 written by John Vanbrugh.

He went on to write several historical works, the most important of which was Original Papers, containing the Secret History of Great Britain from the Restoration to the Accession of the House of Hanover, to which are prefixed Extracts from the Life of James II, as written by himself ( 1775 ).

Two written constitutions were enacted during The Commonwealth of Oliver Cromwell, the Instrument of Government of 1653 and the Humble Petition and Advice of 1657 ; these were overridden by the Restoration of the crown in 1660.

A group of young officers including Nonaka Shirō, Kōda Kiyosada, Muranaka Takaji, Andō Teruzō, Isobe Asaichi, and Kurihara Yasuhide sympathized with the ideas of “ the Shōwa Restoration ” and “ Revere the Emperor, Expel the Evils " as recorded in " An Outline Plan for the Reorganization of Japan " ( 日本改造法案大綱, Nihon Kaizō Hōan Taikō, written by Kita Ikki, a nationalistic socialist ).

The letters were said to have been written to her French lover, Noel Bouton, Marquis de Chamilly ( 1635 – 1715 ), who came to Portugal to fight on behalf of the Portuguese in the Portuguese Restoration War from 1663-1668.

After the Restoration, John Gauden, bishop of Worcester, claimed to have written it.

That he was gifted with considerable political foresight is shown by a remarkable letter written on 20 September 1658 on the death of Cromwell, in which he foretells with uncommon sagacity the future developments in the political situation, advises the royalists to remain inactive till the right moment and profit by the division of their opponents, and distinguishes George Monck as the one person willing and capable of effecting the Restoration ( Clarendon State Papers, iii.

Following the Restoration this classification gradually broke down and services became known by the key in which they were written ; hence the common shorthand terminology " Purcell in G minor " or " Stanford in B flat ".

One reason Behn may have changed the elements is because Oroonoko was written near the end of the Restoration period.

The Conquest of Granada is a Restoration era stage play, a two-part tragedy written by John Dryden that was first acted in 1670 and 1671 and published in 1672.

Venice Preserv'd is an English Restoration play written by Thomas Otway, and the most significant tragedy of the English stage in the 1680s.

As the play was written in the Restoration period, when the legal protections for women were few, the emotional heart of the play is the vulnerability of women.

Miles has written three other series of historical mysteries under the Marston pseudonym: one set in Restoration London ; another set in Victorian England during the 1850s against a background of the development of the railways ; and the third set during the military campaigns of the Duke of Marlborough.

He would lobby Parliament, stand for the House of Commons once ( in 1887 ), produce most of his surviving written works, and launch the Palestine Restoration Fund ( in 1875 ), which he would work on until his death.