English King Charles I
Compilation by D. A. Sharpe
King Charles I
is my 24th cousin, nine times removed. Margaret
Tudor is his great grandmother. She
is a sister of King Henry VIII, whose second wife is Anne Boleyn. Ann's elder sister, Mary Boleyn, is
the wife of William Cary, who is my 20th cousin, 13 times removed on my
mother's side of the family. On
my father's side, he is the seventh cousin, five times removed of Edward
Southworth, the first husband of Alice Carpenter, my seventh great grandmother
on my father's side. Edward also
is my 25th cousin, eight times removed on my father's side. Expressed another way, Charles I is
the 7th cousin once removed of husband, Edward Carlton, of stepdaughter, Ellen
Newton (born about 1614) of 6th great grand uncle, Danette Abney.
"Charles ascended the throne
March 27, 1625, upon the death of King James I, his father. His mother was Queen Anne. Charles was at the age of 25. After a weak, sickly childhood, he
became an excellent horseman and a strong-willed king. His strong will, however, proved to
be his undoing: mismanagement of
affairs (in the tradition of his father) forced a showdown with Parliament,
which culminated in civil war and the king's execution.
"Charles inherited the
incessant financial problems of his father:
"The refusal of Parliament to
grant funds to a king who refused to address the grievances of the nobility.
"George Villiers, the Duke of
Buckingham (and homosexual friend of James I), exerted undue and unpopular
influence over Charles in the first years of Charles' reign, as he had in the
rein of King James I; Buckingham's assassination in August 1628 came amid
shouts of joy from the nobility.
"Three times summoned and three
times dissolved through 1625-1629, Parliament went the next 11 years without
being summoned, as Charles financed his reign by selling commercial monopolies
and extracting ship money (a fee demanded from towns for building naval
warships). Charles' marriage to
the devoutly Catholic French princess further incensed the increasingly Puritan
nobility, as her Catholic friends flooded into the royal court. She was a meddlesome woman who put
her wants (and those of her friends) above the needs of the realm.
"Charles' advancement of his
father's failed policies and his wife's Catholic friends divided the realm and
caused civil war. The opposing
forces in the conflict were assessed in the satire, 1066 and All That: '... the utterly memorable struggle
between the Cavaliers (Wrong, but romantic) and the Roundheads (Right, but
Repulsive).' Edward Hyde, author
of the History of the Great Rebellion, acknowledged Charles' faults, but
offered this intuitive observation: '...
he was, if ever any, the most worthy of the title of
an honest man - so great a lover of justice that no temptation could dispose
him to a wrongful action, except that it were so disguised to him that he
believed it to be just.' Many of
these temptations occurred during the reign of Charles I. His life ended in an execution."
Source:http://www.britannia.com/history/monarchs/mon47.html
The Wicked Bible, sometimes called Adulterous Bible or Sinners' Bible, is the Bible published in 1631 by Robert Barker and Martin Lucas, the royal printers in London, meant to be a reprint of the King James Bible. The name is derived from a mistake made by the compositors: in the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:14), the word "not" in the
sentence "Thou shalt not commit adultery" was unintentionally omitted,
thus changing the sentence into "Thou shalt commit adultery," This blunder was spread in a number of copies. About a year
later, the publishers of the Wicked Bible were called to the Star Chamber and fined £300 (equivalent to £45,844 as of 2016) and
deprived of their printing license. The fact that this edition of the Bible contained
such a flagrant mistake outraged Charles I and George Abbot, the Archbishop of Canterbury, who said then:
"I knew the time
when great care was had about printing, the Bibles especially, good compositors
and the best correctors were gotten being grave and learned men, the paper and
the letter rare, and faire every way of the best, but now the paper is naught,
the composers boys, and the correctors unlearned."
The
majority of
the Wicked Bible's copies immediately were cancelled and burned, and the number of extant copies remaining today,
which are considered highly valuable by collectors, is thought to be relatively
low. One copy is in the collection of rare books in the New York Public Library and is very rarely made accessible;
another can be seen in the Dunham Bible Museum in Houston, Texas, USA. The British Library in London had a copy on display, opened to the
misprinted commandment, in a free exhibition until September 2009.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_I_of_England
On June 29, 1644, English King
Charles I defeated a Parliamentarian detachment at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge. This
regained security of CharlesÕ reign in the face of the rebelling
Parliamentarians.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cropredy_Bridge
"On 20 January 1649, Charles was charged with
high treason 'against the realm of England.' Charles
refused to plead, saying that he did not recognize the legality of the High
Court (it had been established by a Commons purged of dissent, and without the
House of Lords - nor had the Commons ever acted as a judicature).
"The King was sentenced to
death on 27 January. Three days
later, Charles was beheaded on a scaffold outside the Banqueting House in
Whitehall, London.
"The King asked for warm
clothing before his execution: 'the
season is so sharp as probably may make me shake, which some observers may
imagine proceeds from fear. I
would have no such imputation.'
"On the scaffold, he repeated
his case: 'I must tell you that
the liberty and freedom [of the people] consists in having of Government, those
laws by which their life and their goods may be most their own. It is not for having share in
Government, Sir, that is nothing pertaining to them. A subject and a sovereign are clean
different things. If I would
have given way to an arbitrary way, for to have all laws changed according to
the Power of the Sword, I needed not to have come here, and therefore I tell
you ... that I am the martyr of the people.'
"His final words were 'I go
from a corruptible to an incorruptible Crown, where no disturbance can be.'
"The King was buried on
February 9, 1649 at Windsor, rather than Westminster Abbey, to avoid public
disorder. To avoid the automatic
succession of Charles I's son, Charles, an Act was passed on 30 January,
forbidding the proclaiming of another monarch. On 7 February 1649, the office of
King was formally abolished."
Source:http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page76.asp
Oliver Cromwell became the Lord
Protectorate of the Commonwealth of England following the reign of King Charles
I, and Cromwell then took the place of a Monarch. Ironically, Cromwell was ritually
executed on January 30, 1661, two years after his own death, on the anniversary
of the execution death of King Charles I, the very King Cromwell had deposed. A case of people trying still to inflict
discredit upon those whose body resides in the grave, but whose soul has made
the transition to whichever of the two eternal destinations are in order for that particular person. In this case, King Charles, I
expected to bask in the graces of God's Heaven.
Information gathered by:
Dwight Albert (D.
A.) Sharpe
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