Complex sentence: Starting on Shrove Tuesday the riots lasted for five days, as young apprentices burnt and smashed up the royally supported brothels across London, representative to some of Charles's continental style court, awash with unaffordable debauchery.
Split into simpler sentences: Starting on Shrove Tuesday the riots lasted for five days, as young apprentices burnt and smashed up the royally supported brothels across London. To some, the brothels symbolised Charles's continental style court, licentious, awash with unaffordable debauchery.