King Charles I

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...

EW received the state imprimatur for A Warning-Peece from Heaven, Against the Sins of the Times, a handsome pamphlet with a decorative, architectural title-page, prophesying divine vengeance for executing Charles I .

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...

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...

LED 's Amsterdam publications (one of which was believed to threaten the king 's life) were publicly burned.

The queen had left Oxford, pregnant, in April, attended on her first day's journey by her husband (whom she was never to see again) and her sons Charles and James. At Exeter she gave...

The story is set during the English Civil War, so the Birmingham that it depicts is a pre-industrial country town, yet the character Tubal Bromycham, descendant of the lords of the manor of Birmingham in...

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...

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...

This work anagramatises Eleanor Audelie as Reveale O Daniel and Eleanor Davies as A Snare O Devil. Lady Eleanor is attentive to other occult meanings, like numerology and anniversaries of special events including...

DP 's continuing admiration for and loyalty to Elizabeth (like that of Anne Bradstreet a few years later) seems to reflect proto-feminist attitudes; but it may be angled chiefly at the current political situation: in...

But she moves on from celebration to warning: the human race is fallen, and a ruler needs to guard against ambition (This second Paradise, oh hazard not), faction, and rebellion (imaged as...

MC begins with a commemorative account of the dealings of Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (First Lord of the Treasury under Queen Anne ), with her husband, Charles Caesar . It was news of...

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...

Hatchways is one of ES 's more humorous novels, since much is made of a foreign visitor's response to English culture and his desire to know more about what he takes to be its representatives....