A Coffin for King Charles
Author: Cicely Veronica Wedgwood
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781585790333
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The Trial of Charles I: A History in Documents
Author: K.J. Kesselring
Publisher: Broadview Press
Published: 2016-03-14
Total Pages: 170
ISBN-13: 146040579X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn January 1649, after years of civil war, King Charles I stood trial in a specially convened English court on charges of treason, murder, and other high crimes against his people. Not only did the revolutionary tribunal find him guilty and order his death, but its masters then abolished monarchy itself and embarked on a bold (though short-lived) republican experiment. The event was a landmark in legal history. The trial and execution of King Charles marked a watershed in English politics and political theory and thus also affected subsequent developments in those parts of the world colonized by the British. This book presents a selection of contemporaries’ accounts of the king’s trial and their reactions to it, as well as a report of the trial of the king’s own judges once the wheel of fortune turned and monarchy was restored. It uses the words of people directly involved to offer insight into the causes and consequences of these momentous events.
A King Condemned
Author: C. V. Wedgwood
Publisher: Tauris Parke Paperbacks
Published: 2011-06-07
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781848856882
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe reign of Charles I, defined by religious conflict, a titanic power struggle with Parliament, and culminating in the English Civil Wars, the execution of the king, and the brief abolition of the monarchy, was one of the most turbulent in English history. Six years after the First Civil War began, and following Charles’ support for the failed Royalist uprising of the Second Civil War, an act of Parliament was passed that produced something unprecedented in the history of England: the trial of an English king on a capital charge. There followed ten extraordinary weeks that finally drew to a dark end on January 30, 1649, when Charles was beheaded in Whitehall. In this acclaimed account, C. V. Wedgwood recreates the dramatic events of the trial and Charles’s final days, to vividly bring to life the main actors in this tragic and compelling story
The Trial of Charles I
Author: David Lagomarsino
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2000-10-03
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 161168059X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEyewitness accounts of the trial and execution of Charles I portray a revolutionary moment in English history
The Regicides and the Execution of Charles 1
Author: J. Peacey
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2001-10-02
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1403932816
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe events surrounding the trial of Charles I have been remarkably understudied by historians, despite a wealth of information regarding both the proceedings and personalities involved, and contemporary responses and reactions. These essays submit one of the most momentous events in English history to rigorous scholarship, contextualise it in the light of recent historiography, not least regarding relations between the three kingdoms of Britain.
Killers of the King
Author: Charles Spencer
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2015-01-20
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 1620409127
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the lives of the men who signed Charles I's death warrant and the far-reaching consequences for them, those present at the trial, and England itself.
The King's Revenge
Author: Michael Walsh
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Published: 2012-08-28
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 0748126546
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen Charles I was executed, his son Charles II made it his role to search out retribution, producing the biggest manhunt Britain had ever seen, one that would span Europe and America and would last for thirty years. Men who had once been among the most powerful figures in England ended up on the scaffold, on the run, or in fear of the assassin's bullet. History has painted the regicides and their supporters as fanatical Puritans, but among them were remarkable men, including John Milton and Oliver Cromwell. Don Jordan and Michael Walsh bring these remarkable figures and this astonishing story vividly to life an engrossing, bloody tale of plots, spies, betrayal, fear and ambition.
King Charles the First: an historical tragedy. Written in imitation of Shakespear, etc. [By William Havard.]
Author: Charles I (King of England)
Publisher:
Published: 1737
Total Pages: 72
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCharles I's Killers in America
Author: Matthew Jenkinson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2019-06-13
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0192552570
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen the British monarchy was restored in 1660, King Charles II was faced with the conundrum of what to with those who had been involved in the execution of his father eleven years earlier. Facing a grisly fate at the gallows, some of the men who had signed Charles I's death warrant fled to America. Charles I's Killers in America traces the gripping story of two of these men-Edward Whalley and William Goffe-and their lives in America, from their welcome in New England until their deaths there. With fascinating insights into the governance of the American colonies in the seventeenth century, and how a network of colonists protected the regicides, Matthew Jenkinson overturns the enduring theory that Charles II unrelentingly sought revenge for the murder of his father. Charles I's Killers in America also illuminates the regicides' afterlives, with conclusions that have far-reaching implications for our understanding of Anglo-American political and cultural relations. Novels, histories, poems, plays, paintings, and illustrations featuring the fugitives were created against the backdrop of America's revolutionary strides towards independence and its forging of a distinctive national identity. The history of the 'king-killers' was distorted and embellished as they were presented as folk heroes and early champions of liberty, protected by proto-revolutionaries fighting against English tyranny. Jenkinson rewrites this once-ubiquitous and misleading historical orthodoxy, to reveal a far more subtle and compelling picture of the regicides on the run.
The Tyrannicide Brief
Author: Geoffrey Robertson
Publisher: Anchor
Published: 2008-12-10
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13: 0307492257
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCharles I waged civil wars that cost one in ten Englishmen their lives. But in 1649 Parliament was hard put to find a lawyer with the skill and daring to prosecute a king who claimed to be above the law. In the end, they chose the radical lawyer John Cooke, whose Puritan conscience, political vision, and love of civil liberties gave him the courage to bring the king to trial. As a result, Charles I was beheaded, but eleven years later Cooke himself was arrested, tried, and executed at the hands of Charles II. Geoffrey Robertson, a renowned human rights lawyer, provides a vivid new reading of the tumultuous Civil War years, exposing long-hidden truths: that the king was guilty, that his execution was necessary to establish the sovereignty of Parliament, that the regicide trials were rigged and their victims should be seen as national heroes. Cooke’s trial of Charles I, the first trial of a head of state for waging war on his own people, became a forerunner of the trials of Augusto Pinochet, Slobodan Milosevic, and Saddam Hussein. The Tyrannicide Brief is a superb work of history that casts a revelatory light on some of the most important issues of our time.
