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Diane Purkiss. The English Civil War: A People’s History
The English Civil War
Diane Purkiss
Table of Contents
Maps
An Epistle to the Gentle Reader
I The Last Cavalier?
II The Meek-Eyed Peace
III Two Women: Anna Trapnel and Lucy Hay
IV The Bishops’ Wars, the Three Kingdoms, and Montrose
V Pym against the Papists
VI Stand Up, Shout Mars
VII The Valley of Decision
VIII Bright-Harnessed Angels: Edgehill
IX Down with Bishops and Bells: Iconoclasm
X The Death of Dreams
XI The War over Christmas
XII The Queen’s Tale: Henrietta Maria
XIII Newbury Fight
XIV Two Capitals: Oxford and London
XV The Bitterness of War
XVI Two Marriages
XVII The Power of Heaven: Marston Moor and Cromwell
XVIII The Cookery Writers’ Tales: General Hunger, Hannah Wolley, Kenelm Digby and the Deer of Corse Lawn
XIX Twenty Thousand Cornish Boys: The Battle of Lostwithiel
XX The Nation’s Nightmares
XXI Th’ Easy Earth That Covers Her: The Children’s Tales
XXII God with Us! Montrose’s Campaign
XXIII New Professions: Parliament Joan and Richard Wiseman
XXIV The World is Turned Upside Down: The New Model Army and Naseby Fight
XXV Ashes: The Siege of Taunton and the Clubmen
XXVI The Birds in the Greenwoods are Mated Together: Anne Halkett and the Escape of James II
XXVII Nor Iron Bars a Cage: The Capture of Charles I
XXVIII A New Heaven and a New Earth: Anna Trapnel and the Levellers
XXIX Stand Up Now, Stand Up Now: Gerrard Winstanley and the Diggers
XXX The Second Civil War
XXXI To Carisbrooke’s Narrow Case: Charles I in Captivity
XXXII Oh, He is Gone, and Now hath Left Us Here: The Trial and Execution of Charles I
XXXIII Into Another Mould? The Aftermath
FURTHER READING. GENERAL
ISABELLA TWYSDEN
CHARLES I
OLIVER CROMWELL
LONDON
LUCY HAY, COUNTESS OF CARLISLE
HENRIETTA MARIA
VERNEY FAMILY
WOMEN
PARLIAMENT
LAUD AND THE LAUDIAN REFORMS
JOHN HAMPDEN
JOHN PYM
ANTI-POPERY
ANNA TRAPNEL
THE BISHOPS’ WARS, THE THREE KINGDOMS, AND MONTROSE
THE ULSTER RISING AND IRELAND, AND ANTI-PAPIST PANICS IN ENGLAND
THE OUTBREAK OF WAR IN ENGLAND
THE FIGHTING
THOMAS SALUSBURY AND WALES
COUNTESS RIVERS AND THE RIOTS IN EASTERN ENGLAND
PHILIP SKIPPON
ICONOCLASM
PRYNNE, BURTON, BASTWICK
THOMAS WENTWORTH, EARL OF STRAFFORD
BRILLIANA HARLEY
WILLIAM, SUSAN AND BASIL FEILDING
JOHN MILTON
MATTHEW HOPKINS
PRINCE RUPERT
THE KING’S PICTURES AND THEIR FATE
WAR IN WINCHESTER
ANN FANSHAWE AND OXFORD
NEHEMIAH WALLINGTON
ATROCITIES
CHRISTMAS
DEVON AND CORNWALL
FAIRFAX
FOOD AND COOKERY WRITERS
NEWS AND THE PRINTING PRESS
RICHARD WISEMAN AND THE WOUNDED SOLDIER
THE LEVELLERS
WINSTANLEY AND THE DIGGERS
SECOND CIVIL WAR
CHILDREN
ANNE HALKETT
AFTERWARDS
REMEMBERING THE WAR
INDEX
Interview. Q & A with Diane Purkiss
LIFE at a Glance. BORN
EDUCATED
LIVES
CAREER TO DATE
FAMILY
A Writing Life
Top Ten Historical Novels
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Henrietta held to a belief for which material objects – people, places – were important. Catholicism was not something that happened in the head; it involved the vital and willing body in strenuous acts of faith to other bodies, beginning with Christ’s own bleeding body, and ending with those of the martyrs. Visiting Tyburn, she would have felt something of what we might feel visiting the site of Auschwitz – awe, pity, fear, and passionate indignation – and a little of the fear might still have felt pressing and personal, for the laws of England allowed people to be hanged for being Catholic, for doing no more and sometimes rather less than Henrietta’s marriage treaty allowed her to do. Only two years after the treaty was signed, two Catholics were hanged at Lancaster. Henrietta’s family were Catholic, as were her friends, and she was personally devout. Events like the hangings were utterly baffling for her, and hardly added to an already imperilled sense of security.
Catholics had been feared since the 1570 papal edict against Elizabeth I, but what aroused a new kind of anxiety was the perceived influence of Catholics at court. The powerful Duke of Buckingham’s wife and his mother had both converted to Catholicism in 1622. Catholic icons were still being imported into the country. One member of the 1621 Parliament reported that rosaries, crucifixes, relics, and ‘papistical pictures’ were flooding in, and that in Lancashire they were made and sold openly in the streets. In The Popish Royal Favourite, William Prynne claimed that Buckingham’s ‘Jesuited mother and sister’ influenced him and through him the kingdom. Henrietta’s marriage treaty guaranteed her the right to practise her own religion, and her household servants to do the same. This was by itself enough to terrify. But her behaviour made matters worse. Henrietta was strongly, passionately, vehemently Catholic. The English were inclined to read this as rather tactless. They hadn’t been unduly pleased by the previous queen Anne of Denmark’s Catholicism, but at least she had shown the good taste to keep it decently under wraps. Henrietta was a woman of real conviction, which meant she didn’t and couldn’t. She was also a girl in her late teens, not very experienced in politics or used to compromise. Half Bourbon, half Medici, she had not learnt much about giving way from her mother. She stoutly refused to attend her husband’s coronation, because it was a Church of England ceremony.
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