King Charles I

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

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Literary Setting Anna Maria Mackenzie
The title-page bears a quotation from Shakespeare ; the dedication argues that the rebel Monmouth was wrong but deserving of pity. The story traces the fate of a family named Bruce; it opens with a...
Literary Setting Charlotte Charke
The Mercer is the tale of William Dennis in the reign of Charles I , who marries money and becomes a silk mercer in London's Cheapside, but who then ruins his own wealth and...
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.
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Her desire to become a nun was embarrassing for her mother, who was negotiating...
Occupation Judith Man
It seems that she herself may have held some position as official attendant on the two daughters of Thomas Wentworth, Lord Strafford , as well as doing lessons with them. Strafford, recently ennobled by his...
Performance of text Mary Russell Mitford
MRM 's Charles the First , an Historical Tragedy, in five acts was performed at the Victoria Theatre in south London, after running into censorship trouble.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research.
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politics John Milton
On the Restoration of Charles IIJM (who had unmistakably written to blacken the reputation of Charles I as a ruler, as well as against tyrants, that is unjust rulers, in general) felt himself quite...
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 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/.
politics Alice Thornton
AT later deplored the execution of Charles I : Lett all true Christians mourne for the fall of this stately ceader.
Thornton, Alice. The Autobiography of Mrs. Alice Thornton. Editor Jackson, Charles, Published for the Society by Andrews.
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politics Sarah Dixon
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.
Kennedy, Deborah. Poetic Sisters. Early Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Bucknell University Press.
143-4
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.
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When she accompanied Dick on diplomatic missions working for the monarchist cause, she...
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.
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, No. 3, pp. 805-36.
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are said by the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography to have treated...
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...
politics Elizabeth Melvill
EM evidently wielded some influence in the struggle between the monarchy and its Scottish subjects, which re-ignited in April 1637 with resistance to Charles I 's attempt to impose the Scottish Prayer Book on them...
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...

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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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