King Charles I

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

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Textual Production Catharine Macaulay
CM published volume five of her History of England through Edward and Charles Dilly , with a subtitle that reads From the Death of Charles I to the Restoration of Charles II .
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
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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.
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CM is perhaps surprisingly respectful of Charles I's personal virtues; yet...
Textual Production Marie-Madeleine de Lafayette
This claims to be not a novel, but actual memoirs, said to be dictated by their protagonist. Henriette d'Angleterre was the name given to Henrietta Anne Stuart, daughter of the executed Charles I of England
Family and Intimate relationships Ellis Cornelia Knight
ECK 's father, Sir Joseph Knight , was a Rear-Admiral of the White squadron. He entered the Royal Navy at the age of fourteen, needing a profession since his family had lost a considerable amount...
Textual Features Elinor James
James's strong admonitory style has much in common with that of religious prophets. She is equally ready to cross swords with Quakers and Dissenters on the one hand and Catholics on the other, to venerate...
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 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...
Publishing Elizabeth Isham
Besides her life-writings, EI left papers dealing with two principal topics: the practice of herbal medicine and the practice of religion, expressed in penitential devotions. The medical manuscripts are now Northamptonshire Record Office IC4823, 4824...
Family and Intimate relationships Lucy Hutchinson
In the Civil War John Hutchinson (commissioned a colonel in January 1643) became commander of the parliamentary forces in Nottinghamshire, and of the stronghold of Nottingham Castle. In 1646 he became Member of...
politics Lucy Hutchinson
LH said he behaved magnanimously to such people. He signed Charles I 's death warrant, but opposed Cromwell 's gradual assumption of quasi-royal powers. He was glad to return to private life.
politics Lucy Hutchinson
As a member of the Council of State (instituted after the king 's death as chief executive body) John Hutchinson found himself with power over his old opposites and enemies of . . . the...
Family and Intimate relationships Anne Halkett
AH 's father, Thomas Murray , Provost of Eton and Preceptor to the future Charles I , died in April 1623, when she was three months old.
Halkett, Anne, and Ann, Lady Fanshawe. “Note on the Text; A Chronology of Anne, Lady Halkett”. The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett and Ann, Lady Fanshawe, edited by John Loftis, Clarendon Press, pp. 3-7.
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Halkett, Anne et al. “The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett”. The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett, and Ann, Lady Fanshawe, edited by John Loftis and John Loftis, Clarendon Press, pp. 9-87.
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politics Anne Halkett
She had his measurements taken and got a petticoat and a woman's waistcoat made for him (the tailor expressed astonishment at the measurements). She took him in her arms at meeting, dressed him, provided him...
Family and Intimate relationships Anne Halkett
Their wedding, if it occurred, must have come between the execution of Charles I and the last illness of Anne's brother Will. After this, Loftis believes, Bampfield heard that his wife was after all still...
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...

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3 June 1647: Charles I passed into the custody of Cromwell's...

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3 June 1647

Charles I passed into the custody of Cromwell 's New Model Army at Holmby in Northamptonshire.

5 June 1647: Soldiers of the Parliamentary army took an...

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5 June 1647

Soldiers of the Parliamentary army took an engagement not to disband; using the captive king as hostage, they began issuing manifestoes calling for army reform and army rule.

6 August 1647: Cromwell's New Model Army marched on London...

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6 August 1647

Cromwell 's New Model Army marched on London to quell an attempted Presbyterian counter-revolution.

March 1648: This month saw the outbreak of the conflict...

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March 1648

This month saw the outbreak of the conflict variously known as the Second Civil War or the War Between the Three Kingdoms, which ended only with the death of the king .

27 January 1649: Ann or Anne Fairfax (wife of the former parliamentary...

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27 January 1649

Ann or Anne Fairfax (wife of the former parliamentary commander Sir Thomas Fairfax ) made her second verbal intervention in the trial of Charles I .

30 January 1649: Charles I, called to trial on 19 January...

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30 January 1649

Charles I , called to trial on 19 January and sentenced on 27 January, was executed. A Commonwealth was declared; but to many the king became a martyr.

13 February 1649: Following the king's execution, Milton published...

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13 February 1649

Following the king 's execution, Milton published The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates, a pamphlet designed to enforce the general point that a tyrant may be lawfully got rid of.

Between 14 and 17 October 1660: A group of those associated with the execution...

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Between 14 and 17 October 1660

A group of those associated with the execution of Charles I (several of the almost sixty Regicides who in various official capacities had signed his death-warrant, and others) were executed by hanging.

30 January 1661: On the anniversary of Charles I's execution,...

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30 January 1661

On the anniversary of Charles I 's execution, the bodies of Cromwell and some close associates were draged out of their superbe tombs in Westminster Abbey.

7 December 1666: More than a hundred Covenanters were found...

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7 December 1666

More than a hundred Covenanters were found guilty of rebellion and sentenced to be hanged with particular brutality from the Mercat Cross in Edinburgh.

By November 1754: David Hume published at Edinburgh the first...

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By November 1754

David Hume published at Edinburgh the first volume of his History of Great Britain (called in most later editions The History of England).

Between March 1844 and August 1845: The hugely prolific Alexandre Dumas published...

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Between March 1844 and August 1845

The hugely prolific Alexandre Dumas published not only his best-known novel, The Three Musketeers, but also The Count of Monte-Cristo, Twenty Years After, and La Reine Margot.

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