"It was a great asset to the Republic that some royalists talked in their cups in dubious company."

-Alan Marshall, Intelligence and Espionage in the Reign of
Charles II, 1660-1685

"Anyone who had been an enthusiastic supporter of the preceding regimes found the summer of 1660 a bad time to get drunk."

-Ronald Hutton, The Restoration: A Political and
Religious History of England and Wales, 1658-1667