PREVEW: Also from my two-hour conversation with Professor Jonathan Healey, this time about the yearning for order after the chaos following the death of Oliver Cromwell. The Restoration installed Charles II, who endorsed the familiar aristocrats and also

PREVEW: Also from my two-hour conversation with Professor Jonathan Healey, this time about the yearning for order after the chaos following the death of Oliver Cromwell.  The Restoration installed Charles II, who endorsed the familiar aristocrats and also the Church of England to supremacy.  Of interest to me, because dissenters such as Quakers were persecuted, imrpisoned, or deported (or fled) to the perilous colonies.  My Quaker ancestor, Richard Batchelor of Buckinghamshire, nine generations ago,chose to become an indentured servant in the Tidewater colony of Virginia in 1661. Here's the Professor: 

The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689 Hardcover – Deckle Edge, April 11, 2023.  by  Jonathan Healey (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Blazing-World-History-Revolutionary-1603-1689/dp/0593318358

 1673 Virginia colony