Complex sentence: The hunts subsided under English occupation after the Civil Wars during the period of the Commonwealth led by Oliver Cromwell in the 1650s, but returned after the Restoration in 1660, causing some alarm and leading to the Privy Council of Scotland limiting arrests, prosecutions and torture.
Split into simpler sentences: The hunts subsided under English occupation after the Civil Wars during the period of the Commonwealth led by Oliver Cromwell. In the 1650s and returned after the Restoration in 1660, causing some alarm and leading to the Privy Council of Scotland limiting arrests, prosecutions and torture.