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 | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Reception | Lady Eleanor Douglas | LED
's Amsterdam publications (one of which was believed to threaten the king
's life) were publicly burned. |
| Textual Production | Lady Eleanor Douglas | LED
published A Prayer or Petition for Peace, as Charles I
was marching on Oxford. Douglas, Lady Eleanor. Prophetic Writings of Lady Eleanor Davies. Editor Cope, Esther S., Oxford University Press. 131ff |
| Textual Production | Lady Eleanor Douglas | LED
seems to have marked Charles I
's trial by a series of tracts. Douglas, Lady Eleanor. Prophetic Writings of Lady Eleanor Davies. Editor Cope, Esther S., Oxford University Press. 245ff |
| Textual Production | Lady Eleanor Douglas | In The Everlasting Gospel, LED
looked back at the period of Charles I
's reign and her own prophetic career. Douglas, Lady Eleanor. Prophetic Writings of Lady Eleanor Davies. Editor Cope, Esther S., Oxford University Press. 285ff |
| Textual Production | Lady Eleanor Douglas | LED
commemorated the fatal anniversary of Charles I
's execution in The Bill of Excommunication. Douglas, Lady Eleanor. Prophetic Writings of Lady Eleanor Davies. Editor Cope, Esther S., Oxford University Press. 293ff |
| Cultural formation | Lady Eleanor Douglas | Her vision was announced by the voice of the biblical prophet Daniel (whom she had been studying). This was during the first year and first parliament of Charles I
's reign. She found seven more... |
| Textual Features | Lady Eleanor Douglas | This work anagramatises Eleanor Audelie as Reveale O Daniel and Eleanor Davies as A Snare O Devil. Douglas, Lady Eleanor. Prophetic Writings of Lady Eleanor Davies. Editor Cope, Esther S., Oxford University Press. 1, 6 |
| Reception | Lady Eleanor Douglas | The burning was ordered by Archbishop Laud
and the Court of High Commission
, in spite of support for LED
from Charles I
's sister, Queen Elizabeth of Bohemia
. LED
was sentenced to imprisonment... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Lady Eleanor Douglas | In the same year, in the poem To Sion most Belov'd I Sing, she compared Charles I
to King Belshazzar in her favourite book of Daniel, whose feast was interrupted by the divine... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Lady Eleanor Douglas | This two-part allegorical tract or prophecy, To the High Court (which repeats almost exactly a title LED
had used in 1641) and Samsons Legacie, makes Charles I
and Henrietta Maria
modern avatars of the... |
| 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... |
| Publishing | Ephelia | The initial letter H (Hail Mighty Prince!) in the 1679 reprint is rendered by a woodcut ornament or factotum with portraits of two crowned figures, one of each sex, with the royal rose... |
| Fictionalization | Ephelia | In 2007 Cheryl Sawyer
, in a historical novel entitled The Winter Prince, presented a triangular relationship between the happily-married Duchess of Richmond (already a poet, identified as the future Ephelia), her husband
... |
| Leisure and Society | Ephelia | From an early age, the personal beauty of Lady Mary Villiers and her prominence at court ensured that she was painted many times: by Van Dyck
(especially), John Michael Wright
, and possibly Lely
... |
| politics | Ephelia | Ephelia was, from her poems, a Tory, a passionate supporter of the Stuart monarchy. In 1645 Mary, Duchess of Richmond, was advising Prince Rupert
by letter on his relations with Charles I
. Thumbprints of "Ephelia" (Lady Mary Villiers): The End of an Enigma in Restoration Attribution. http://www.ephelia.com/. |
Timeline
3 June 1647: Charles I passed into the custody of Cromwell's...
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3 June 1647
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
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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