executions
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In this piece, we introduced the idea that Shakespeare, although a very inaccurate historian, accurately reflected the cultural history of his time with respect to the political execution of women. We have also discussed how the Bard’s Richard III may actually have been a portrayal of Robert Cecil. Another piece showed the uncertainty as to…
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Today in 1417, Sir John Olcastle was hanged and burned at Smithfield , as a leading Lollard and political rebel who had previously escaped from the Tower. He had been a High Sheriff of Herefordshire, an MP and a soldier under the Prince of Wales in Wales and France, all in Henry IV’s reign. One…
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More sport and history – C17 this time
Battle of Sedgemoor, Charles II, Earl of Essex, executions, Framlingham, Great Wenham, horse racing, Ipswich, Ipswich Witches, James VII/II, Manningtree, Matthew Hopkins, Monmouth Rebellion, Newmarket, Puritans, rugby, Rye House Plot, Rye House Rockets, Somerset, Somerset Rebels, speedway, sport, Wars of the Roses, witchcraftNovember is upon us and speedway fans in the northern hemisphere are now in hibernation, but at least two or three of the top clubs owe their roots to the events of the seventeenth century. Following our article on rugby clubs and the “Wars of the Roses” , here they are: 2017 PREMIERSHIP: Somerset Rebels…
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This is about to undergo a little refurbishment. The first picture shows the eastern approach to the Cornhill, where heresy executions took place during the sixteenth century, whilst the others are from the monument in Christchurch Park. See also: https://murreyandblue.wordpress.com/2016/07/23/a-colchester-mystery/ or https://murreyandblue.wordpress.com/2014/02/04/an-afternoon-in-hadleigh-2006/
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An award for masochism?
Edward IV, Elizabeth I, executions, exiles, George Duke of Clarence, Gertrude Blount, Henry Courtenay Marquess of Exeter, Henry Lord Montagu, Henry Pole the Younger, Henry VIII, Italy, Margaret of Salisbury, Mary I, Padua, Phillip II, Reginald Cardinal Pole, Sir Edward Neville, Sir Geoffrey Pole, Thomas Courtenay Earl of Devon, Tower of London, Wyatt RebellionThe 1538 plot first saw Sir Geoffrey Pole arrested that autumn and compelled, by a threat to torture his servants, to give evidence about the activities of his exiled brother Reginald and other relatives. Henry Pole Lord Montagu and Henry Courtenay Marquess of Exeter were arrested next, together with Montagu’s son Henry the Younger and…
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It is not widely know that Richard II had a half-brother on his father’s side. This was Sir Roger of Clarendon, son of Edward of Woodstock ‘the Black Prince’ by one Edith de Willesford. Roger was almost certainly older than Richard II. In 1372 he received an annuity from Edward III of £100. He was…
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TREASON 3 – The Long Parliament 1649
Algernon Sidney, anarchy, Bishops, Carisbroke castle, Catholicism, Charles I, Charles II, Church of England, Commonwealth, constitutional monarchy, Cornet George Joyce, dethronement, Edward II, Elizabeth I, executions, Henry VI, Holmby House, House of Commons, House of Lords, Interregnum, James VI/I, James VII/II, John, John Bradshaw, John Cooke, Juxton, Laud, lex talionis, Lockyer, London, Long Parliament, Lords Appellant, Magna Carta, Mary II, Mass, Merciless Parliament, Naseby, Netherlands, New Model Army, Newcastle, Oliver Cromwell, Oxford, Parliament of Devils, Preston, Pride’s Purge, Puritans, Restoration, Richard Duke of York, Richard II, Robertson, Royal Assent, Rupert, Samuel Gardiner, Scotland, Short Parliament, siege of Colchester, Sir Charles Lucas, Sir George Lisle, Sir Orlando Bridgeman, Sir thomas Fairfax, Southwell, Spain, Strafford, treason, Treaty of Newport, Triennial Act, tyranny, Veronica Wedgwood, Whitehall, William III, WindsorIntroduction “ The scaffold was hung round with black, and the floor covered with black, and the axe and block (were) laid in the middle of the scaffold. There were divers companies of Foot and Horse on every side of the scaffold, and the multitude of people that came to be spectators were very great.”[1]…
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It would seem that pirate queens existed long before the 17th/18th century, the Spanish Main and swash-buckling as we know it. There was a certain French noblewoman in the 14th century who took her revenge upon the French for executing her husband, and did all she could with her pirate fleet to help the England…
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