abstract:Sir John Evelyn (1591–1664) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1628 and 1660. He reluctantly supported the Parliamentary side in the English Civil War.
And diarists Samuel Pepys and JohnEvelyn wrote of the spectacle they witnessed when King Charles II took part in a pageant in 1660, a year after the restoration of the monarchy.
Either way, the catastrophe came in the middle of the writing of Vile Bodies, when the socially active She-Evelyn confessed that she had fallen in love with another man, John Heygate.