King Charles I

LED published A Prayer or Petition for Peace, as Charles I was marching on Oxford.

LED seems to have marked Charles I 's trial by a series of tracts.

In The Everlasting Gospel, LED looked back at the period of Charles I 's reign and her own prophetic career.

DSCS 's father, Sir Robert Sidney, later second Earl of Leicester , was born on 1 December 1595, and became the Earl of Leicester on his father's death in 1626. During his...

During the English Civil War, DSCS had close relatives on both sides of the conflict. Her husband supported the royalist cause, fought, and ultimately died for it. He also gave Charles I a loan...

DSCS wrote another significant letter to her father in the aftermath of her husband 's death in battle in 1643. In this letter, she asks him to petition the king to award her father guardianship...

In her effort to enlighten those whose job it was to apply legal sanctions against Dissenters in Cambridge, AD calls, in effect, for reform of local government. She appeals to history (the Civil War, still...

SD poem's On the 30th of January (the day kept annually sacred to the martyred Charles I ) declares her allegiance to royalist and high-church principles. She portrays Charles as a martyr and a Christian hero.

ED possessed an impressive royalist pedigree, Scottish on her father's side, English on her mother's She was born into the nobility, during the final stages of the English Civil War which temporarily deprived this group...

Her mother, Lady Livingston (born Lady Catherine Howard , eldest among the large family of the second Earl of Suffolk), had made a clandestine marriage with George Stuart, Seigneur D'Aubigny , who was killed in...

Her poem is Miltonic in style, with frequent echoes of Paradise Lost, although written in couplets. Accepting a designation applied to her by ideological enemies, MDF opens by comparing herself to the biblical Deborah...

The novel opens [t]owards the end of Oliver Cromwell 's usurpation, among the Vesey family of Battleridge Castle (in the north of England, near one of the castles owned by Lady Anne Clifford

LAC married her second husband, Lady Pembroke 's second son, Philip Herbert, Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery , Lord Chamberlain to Charles I .

The play takes place in the period immediately following Charles I 's defeat by Cromwell , when for a short time . . . anything seemed possible. Critics have recognised Churchill's debt to Christopher Hill

Against a background of Charles I 's continuing war against Scotland (despite the signing of the Solemn League and Covenant in September 1643) in the attempt to impose Episcopacy in place of Presbyterianism, KC argues...