Last Days of Charles I - Hardcover

Edwards, Graham

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0750920793 ISBN 13: 9780750920797

Publisher: Sutton Pub Ltd, 1999

Synopsis

In January 1649, the "tyrant, traitor, and murderer, Charles Stuart" was tried by a High Court of Justice at Westminster. He was found guilty of having levied war against his kingdom and the Parliament, condemned to death and executed on the scaffold at Whitehall on 30 January. To mark the 350th anniversary of his death, this new book recounts in detail the events that led up to his execution, including the duration and nature of the trial, the verdict, sentence, signing of the execution warrant, the execution itself and the king's burial. Also included are pen-portraits of the regicides ( the fifty-nine signatories of the death warrant and the further nine non-signatories who were condemned for their roles ( and the fates which subsequently befell them).

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King Charles I of England and Scotland hardly fits the mold of a heroic martyr. He was rigid, humorless, and lacked the vision to guide the inexorable tide of parliamentary reform. Yet, he faced imprisonment and execution with admirable dignity, and his comportment inspired royalist sympathizers as they waited out Cromwell's Commonwealth. To mark the 350th anniversary of Charles I's execution, Edwards has provided a compact yet thorough recounting of the Civil War and the events that led to Charles' doom. As the focus of this narrative, Charles often seems a hapless, clueless victim of forces he is incapable of understanding. This is a well-written and highly informative general account of a critical episode in British history. Jay Freeman

Edition details

• Publisher: Sutton Pub Ltd
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0750920793
• ISBN 13: 9780750920797
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 210