 He appears to have sympathized with the royalist rising under Sir George Booth in August 1659, and welcomed the restoration of Charles II in 1660.At the Restoration, which Henry, then newly married, welcomed, Bridgeman resumed the rectory of Bangor, and Henry's position was simply that of his curate at Worthenbury Chapel.In September 1660 he was presented at Flint assizes with Fogg and Richard Steel for not reading the common prayer, and again at the spring assizes, without effect.