Eventually he moved to be clerk of the closet to King Charles I, the Bishop of Hereford, Bishop of London and Lord High Treasurer. During the English ... when it was the Civil War Centre, is ...

Hyde to King Charles I: “He desired the King to consider his ill condition… how unlike it was to be improved by the continuance of the war.” Whitelocke to his ... It is commonplace to observe that the ...

However, its most significant claim to fame is that it was the very place where King Charles I spent his last night before surrendering to the Scottish army in 1646 during the English Civil War.

Newark was a very important location during the English Civil War in the 1640s, as King Charles I used it as a key Royalist stronghold and communications centre. The Nottinghamshire town was ...

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This coming Sunday morning, you could watch several hundred people in English Civil War attire march along the Mall in central London. This is a ceremony to remember the “Horrid Murder” of King ...

Never before, or since, has a king met such an untimely ... in May 1646 Charles was captured and handed over to the English Parliament by the Scots, bringing a conclusion to the First English Civil ...

A pious and strong-willed king, Charles exhibited from childhood the characteristics that would lead to his downfall. By Dr Richard Cust.

Roman Catholic German Emperor Maximilian I is captured in Belgium. 1597: A group of early Japanese Christians, known as ...

This month marks 371 years since the execution of King Charles I ... This followed years of war with his fellow countrymen. However, what people tend to forget is that Devon actually played a ...

On an autumn day in 1680, the 50-year-old Charles II charged Samuel Pepys with an unusual task. Over two three-hour sittings, one on a Sunday evening, the next the following Tuesday morning, the king ...