The providential return of Charles II and the establishment of an episcopal and Arminian Church of England must indeed have seemed like a return to Zion after eleven years in the wilderness. Everything that the royal martyr had died for and Anglican Royalists had worked and prayed for in exile seemed to have been accomplished by 1662, and we enter the heyday of the cult, when each 30 January Anglican pulpits resounded with praise of the martyr and curses against those who had brought such a virtuous prince to his death. Yet the period also witnessed the first public attacks upon the cult during the Exclusion Crisis, and the events of 1688 were to have profound repercussions for the future of the Fast Day. The changes and controversies surrounding the cult merely illustrate the fact that Restoration society was struggling to cope with competing memories of the Civil Wars. The establishment of the cult in the liturgy of the church represented the triumph of one memory of Charles and the wars.