Cope, Esther S. Handmaid of the Holy Spirit: Dame Eleanor Davies, Never Soe Mad a Ladie. University of Michigan Press.
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King Charles I
Standard Name: Charles I, King
Used Form: King Charles the First
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Wealth and Poverty | Lady Eleanor Douglas | |
| Wealth and Poverty | Ann, Lady Fanshawe | The family of Ann Harrison (later ALF
) fell into comparative poverty, owing to her father's having lent the immense sum of £50,000 to the king
in November 1640. Halkett, Anne, and Ann, Lady Fanshawe. “Preface, Introduction, Select Bibliography”. The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett and Ann, Lady Fanshawe, edited by John Loftis, Clarendon Press, p. v - xxi. xv Ann, Lady Fanshawe, et al. “The Memoirs of Ann, Lady Fanshawe”. The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett, and Ann, Lady Fanshawe, edited by John Loftis and John Loftis, Clarendon Press, pp. 101-92. 111 |
| Violence | Margaret Cavendish | Margaret and her mother and sisters spent several days in Colchester jail for protection. Soon afterwards they moved to Oxford, where Charles I
had fled with his court. Jones, Kathleen. A Glorious Fame: The Life of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, 1623-1673. Bloomsbury. 21 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Carola Oman | Oman relates her subject's public engagements as an infant (attending her mother's coronation, sprinkling holy water on her father's corpse); her departure from her native country, with absolutely no knowledge of the English language, to... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Isham | EI
begins with a notation about a time too early for her to remember it: criing quiet at Nurs and sleeping much froward after. It seems in the absence of punctuation, that she is passing... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Katherine Philips | KP
's poems range over every degree of a scale reaching from expressions of intense personal feeling to formal comment on public affairs. She wrote on the execution of Charles I
, the Restoration of... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elinor James | EJ
here brings together her unfailing concern for the Church of England
with homage to Elizabeth
, who presided over the church's infancy. She also defends the memory of Charles I
, with a threatening... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland | Edward II is a generically complex work: a history composed largely of dramatic speeches, in prose which verges on blank verse. This monarch was famous or infamous for entertaining favourites (particularly Piers Gaveston
) with... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Cary | Here MC
urges the Saints to take up arms against their oppressors (Charles I
is damagingly identified with the little horn of the beast in Revelations), and foresees an early fulfilment of the... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Lady Hester Pulter | As science, religion, and mythology meet in these poems, so do the public-political and the personal. Elegies lament both the violent deaths of royalist leaders Sir Charles Lucas
(elder brother of the poet Margaret Cavendish |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Catharine Macaulay | Volumes three and four cover the period of the Civil War, culminating in this volume with the execution of Charles I
. Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press. 26, 33 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Maria De Fleury | |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Finch | AF
's poetry often combines the personal and the political. A Contemplation reads like a synthesis of her political and religious beliefs. She looks to Christ to compensate for earthly sorrows, and makes of her... |
| Textual Production | Lucy Aikin | For her Memoirs of the Court of King Charles the First, again in two volumes, LA
drew on manuscript as well as printed sources. Aikin, Lucy. Memoirs of the Court of King Charles the First. Longman. title-page Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Textual Production | Mary Astell | This royalist manifesto, while making a show of interpreting the Whig Dr White Kennett
's sermon on 31 January (the anniversary of the death of Charles I
) as loyal praise of the Royal Martyr... |
Timeline
27 March 1625: James I (James VI of Scotland) died, and...
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27 March 1625
James I
(James VI of Scotland) died, and his son Charles I
assumed the throne.
7 June 1628: Charles I backed down and accepted the Petition...
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7 June 1628
Charles I
backed down and accepted the Petition of Right, a statement of the subject's rights and freedoms drawn up by the elderly jurist Sir Edward Coke
.
23 August 1628: Charles I's favourite George Villiers, 1st...
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23 August 1628
Charles I
's favourite George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham
(whose daughter Lady Mary, later Duchess of Richmond, is widely identified as the poet Ephelia
), was assassinated at Portsmouth.
: When parliament (which Charles I had prorogued...
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Autumn1629
When parliament (which Charles I
had prorogued on 26 June) re-assembled, he dissolved it for what he intended to be the last time, having decided to rule without it.
By 15 July 1632: The painter Sir Anthony Van Dyck had spent...
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By 15 July 1632
The painter Sir Anthony Van Dyck
had spent long enough during his second visit to England to be requesting payment for a completed portrait of Charles I
and Henrietta Maria
(known to her husband and...
1634: Charles I granted a warrant to Sir Saunders...
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1634
Charles I
granted a warrant to Sir Saunders Duncombe
to construct and hire out sedan chairs in London and Westminster.
July 1634: William Cavendish, Earl (later Duke) of Newcastle,...
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July 1634
William Cavendish, Earl (later Duke) of Newcastle
, gave a masque at one of his Nottinghamshire estates for Queen Henrietta Maria
: Love's Welcome at Bolsover.
1636: Charles I set up the New Incorporation of...
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1636
Charles I
set up the New Incorporation of Westminster, giving autonomy and status to the court suburb of Westminster to balance that of the City Corporation (of London).
23 July 1637: The Anglican Book of Common Prayer was used...
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23 July 1637
The AnglicanBook of Common Prayer was used for the first time, according to Charles I
's order, at St Giles's Church in Edinburgh, the centre of the Scottish (Presbyterian
) Church.
28 February 1638: At Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh, Scotsmen...
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28 February 1638
At Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh, Scotsmen opposed to Charles I
's imposition of the AnglicanBook of Common Prayer on the Scottish (Presbyterian
) Church signed a National Covenant against such innovations: in...
12 June 1638: By the thinnest margin of 7-5, the Court...
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12 June 1638
By the thinnest margin of 7-5, the Court of the Exchequer
ruled in favour of King Charles I
and against John Hampden
on the latter's defiant refusal to pay ship-money, establishing one of the most...
December 1638: The Glasgow Assembly, a newly formed, radical...
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December 1638
The Glasgow Assembly
, a newly formed, radical body representing the Scottish Kirk
(some weeks after a first meeting in the cathedral at Glasgow) formally condemned Charles I
's Scottish Prayer Book.
27 March-June 1639: Charles I made war on the Scottish Covenanters,...
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27 March-June 1639
20 August 1640: The Scots (provoked by Charles I's imposition...
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20 August 1640
The Scots (provoked by Charles I
's imposition of the AnglicanBook of Common Prayer on the Scottish Presbyterian
Church in 1637) invaded England, and for the second time in eighteen months their monarch marched against them.
3 November 1640: The Long Parliament was reluctantly convened...
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3 November 1640
The Long Parliament was reluctantly convened in London by Charles I
: it included a majority of Puritans, and set about reforms such as abolishing the Court of the Star Chamber
, which, among other...
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