CHAPTER II.
STATE OF EUROPE IN 1660 .-- SECOND ANGLO-DUTCH WAR, 1665-1667.

SEA BATTLES OF LOWESTOFT AND OF THE FOUR DAYS.
The period at which our historical survey is to begin has been loosely stated as the middle of the seventeenth century.

The year 1660 will now be taken as the definite date at which to open.

In May of that year Charles II.

was restored to the English throne amid the general rejoicing of the people.