the restoration restored mary to power in england.
who did the restoration restore to power in england?
mary
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as a consequence of the english civil war, the monarchy was overthrown in 1649 and the crown lands were put up for sale. the manor passed to the cromwellian general john lambert. "lambert," says roger coke, in "a detection of the court and state of england during the four last reigns and the interregnum" (1719), ""after he had been discarded by cromwell, betook himself to wimbledon-house, where he turned florist, and had the finest tulips and gilliflowers that could be got for love or money; yet in these outward pleasures he nourished the ambition which he entertained before he was cashiered by cromwell."" the reputation of wimbledon manor house in the history of flower gardening thus begins with general lambert, who painted some of the flowers he was cultivating. though the queen's flower gardens may have fallen to ruin in the decade of the civil war, the glory of wimbledon aside from the straight avenue of elms and other trees centred on the house, that stretched forth as far as putney was chiefly its fruit. among a thousand fruit trees of every kind, the parliament-men who inventoried the house and gardens in 1649 noted the "three great and fayer" fig trees that covered a very "greate part of the walls of the south side of the manor-house" "by the spreading and dilating of themselves in a very large proporcion, but yet in a most decent manner"; to have grown so extensive in 1649 the figs must have been planted in the time of lord exeter or his son lord wimbledon. the orangery in 1649 held 42 orange trees planted in boxes, valued at £10 each, and 18 young ones, a lemon tree "bearing greate and very large lemmons" (£20) a "pomecitron" tree" ("citrus medica", valued at £10), and six pomegranate trees. doubtless the inventoried bay tree ("laurus nobilis") and the equally tender "irish arbutis, very lovely to looke upon," were being taken into the orangery for winter protection, as england was then in the frigid grip of the little ice age.
wimbledon manor house