King Charles I

Sixty midwives participated in this action, though it is not known who wrote the petition. It was presented to the king , the College of Physicians , and the Archbishop of Canterbury .

For her Memoirs of the Court of King Charles the First, again in two volumes, LA drew on manuscript as well as printed sources.

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...

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...

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...

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...

Volumes three and four cover the period of the Civil War, culminating in this volume with the execution of Charles I .CM is perhaps surprisingly respectful of Charles I's personal virtues; yet...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.