There were a series of different uprisings in opposition to the regime of Charles, and one was by John Lambert. Lambert escaped from the tower of London in 1660, and tried to galvanise support from the army, and the force which he did manage to gather disintegrated when faced with the government troops, and he was sent back to the tower.
A large reason for why Lambert failed was because he did not have time to take advantage of the massive discontent in the army, not to mention the repeated purges which the army had faced since 1659, which made it a thoroughly incoherent force.
The New Model might’ve provided some difficulties for Charles, but because of Monck’s intervention this was not the case, and the majority of the army officers genuinely wished to see Parliament be the ultimate authority in England, yet all the previous parliaments had shown themselves to be suspicious of the New Model and of its ideals. Any within the army who actively opposed monarchy found it very difficult to express it as there was no united front.
One of the few actual uprisings that Charles had to face was that of Venner’s rising in 1661. Venner was a fifth monarchist , and insighted a very small group of fith monarchists to seize a post office in London. What was worrying for the average person about this was that the King took three days to crush Venner, and he dispatched huge numbers of soldiers to deal with a very small number of untrained fifth monarchists.
Following the rising, there were mass arrests and a widespread persecution of nonconformists in London, and Venner was subsequently hanged, drawn and quartered, and other executions were to follow.
Another major public opposition to his reign that Charles faced was the Northern Rising, also known as the Yorkshire plot, and this was what provoked the Five Mile Act to be introduced. This was hugely ambitious – the men who gathered hoped to link up with other risings in both Ireland and Scotland to launch a co-ordinated attack against the state. However, thorough a lack of support their success was limited, and this in turn prevented others from joining. As with Venner’s rising, the actual threat posed by this was minimal, yet it provoked a conservative reaction from the large parts of the country who vastly over exaggerated the fear.
Measures taken by the state, as well as the severe punishment against the regicides, in addition to the changing nature of nonconformity which was becoming more introspective meant that there was in reality very little opposition to the regime.
Furthermore, Republicanism was weakened, though being a numerous movement before the restoration, there was very little dissent from Republicanism after 1660. Perhaps it was because there seemed to be no point in seeking the abolition of the monarchy, since it was now highly impractical. Those who still supported the ‘Good Old Cause’ were likely still striving for greater political, social and religious justice, but they were now restricted to working with the monarchical frame.
The English Civil War (And Its Long-Term Effects) 