King Charles I

Standard Name: Charles I, King
Used Form: King Charles the First

Connections

Connections Author name Sort descending Excerpt
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/.
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
politics Ann, Lady Fanshawe
In autumn 1647 ALF visited the captive King Charles I at Hampton Court. The king called her husband Dick.
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.
xvi
When she accompanied Dick on diplomatic missions working for the monarchist cause, she...
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...
Cultural formation Hester Biddle
Brought up an Anglican , she was initially disturbed at the King 's execution. In the bloody City of London she lived like the prodigal son after his riotous period had ended, feeding ....
Family and Intimate relationships Helen Blackburn
Another ancestor on her mother's side was Thomas Coventry (1578-1640), Lord Keeper, who was Chancellor during the reign of Charles I . He got into his possession the shirt worn by the monarch at his...
Literary Setting Anna Eliza Bray
The book is set in the English countryside at the estate of Warleigh in Devon during the reign of Charles I .
Bray, Anna Eliza. The Novels and Romances of Anna Eliza Bray. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans.
1: xxiii-xxiv
Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge.
Like many of her previous works, it incorporates English forklore and legends.
Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge.
Literary Setting Anna Eliza Bray
Like Warleigh, the novel is again set during the reign of Charles I , and incorporates folklore and legends from Devon and Cornwall.
Bray, Anna Eliza. The Novels and Romances of Anna Eliza Bray. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans.
1: xl
Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press.
Textual Features Mary Caesar
MC begins with a commemorative account of the dealings of Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (First Lord of the Treasury under Queen Anne ), with her husband, Charles Caesar . It was news of...
Occupation Lucy Cary
As a young woman at the court of Charles I , LC was known for fine dressing and jeering wit.
Latz, Dorothy L. "Glow-Worm Light": Writings of Seventeenth-Century English Recusant Women from Original Manuscripts. University of Salzburg.
121
Her desire to become a nun was embarrassing for her mother, who was negotiating...
Education Mary Cary
Her works show clearly that she was not without education (which would have taken place as Charles I was becoming bitterly unpopular with nonconformist elements in society). Nevertheless, once into a propaganda career she was...
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...
Family and Intimate relationships Lady Jane Cavendish
The then Earl of Newcastle offered hospitality at Welbeck to Charles I on his journey north to be crowned King of Scotland: probably the first taste of court life for the children Lady Jane and...
politics Lady Jane Cavendish
Bolsover too surrendered to parliamentarians ten days after Welbeck. The parliamentary forces at Welbeck, under the command of Colonel Thornhaugh ,
Starr, Nathan Comfort. “<span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>The Concealed Fansyes</span>: A Play by Lady Jane Cavendish and Lady Elizabeth Brackley”. PMLA, Vol.
46
, No. 3, pp. 805-36.
803
are said by the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography to have treated...
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

Timeline

27 March 1625: James I (James VI of Scotland) died, and...

National or international item

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...

National or international item

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...

National or international item

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...

National or international item

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...

Building item

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...

Building item

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,...

Writing climate item

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...

Building item

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...

National or international item

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...

National or international item

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...

National or international item

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...

National or international item

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,...

National or international item

27 March-June 1639

Charles I made war on the ScottishCovenanters , or adherents of Presbyterianism .

20 August 1640: The Scots (provoked by Charles I's imposition...

National or international item

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...

National or international item

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...

Texts

No bibliographical results available.