King 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...

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 .

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...

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.

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 .

AT later deplored the execution of Charles I : Lett all true Christians mourne for the fall of this stately ceader.

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.

In autumn 1647 ALF visited the captive King Charles I at Hampton Court. The king called her husband Dick. When she accompanied Dick on diplomatic missions working for the monarchist cause, she...

Bolsover too surrendered to parliamentarians ten days after Welbeck. The parliamentary forces at Welbeck, under the command of Colonel Thornhaugh ,are said by the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography to have treated...

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...

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...

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...

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.

As a young woman at the court of Charles I , LC was known for fine dressing and jeering wit. Her desire to become a nun was embarrassing for her mother, who was negotiating...

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...