#KingCharlesI dissolved parliament in 1629 on #ThisDayInHistory, beginning an 11-year period of English #Absolutism called the Personal Rule. When he needed more tax revenue & called a new parliament in 1640, it resulted in the #EnglishCivilWar. France should have paid attention.
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The use of legal frameworks to dispose of a sovereign had not been tried until the English did it, on #ThisDayInHistory in 1649, when the High Court of Justice opened proceedings against #KingCharlesI. He was quickly found guilty & executed (something deserved by all autocrats).
A couple of years ago I did a bike tour across the UK with a good friend to raise money for @[email protected]
We stopped in Newcastle for some light refreshment and met this chap. Not sure why Paddy insisted we had a photo taken together. 🤷‍♂️
#KingCharlesI #HairBrothers
After Osborne House we visited Carisbrooke Castle 🏰
#isleofwight #KingCharlesI #princessbeatrice #carisbrookecastle

William Lawes: Wherefore do my sisters stay?
The second #symphony, #song and #chorus from James Shirley's court #masque, The Triumph of Peace, which was performed for King Charles I at the Palace of #Whitehall in 1634.

Richard de Winter: Irene (tenor)
Peter Willcock: bass
Alison Kinder: bass #viol
Tamsin Lewis: #violin, alto
Keith McGowan: #flute
Richard Mackenzie: #lute

Image: Giulio Parigi: Design for the 6th Interlude for Cosimo de Medici, 1608

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#CharlesI #KingCharlesI #17thCentury #seventeenthcentury #WilliamLawes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6RKcVn8x_g&ab_channel=Passamezzo

William Lawes: Wherefore do my sisters stay?

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Exeter restaurant boss stumbles upon £24k historic coin haul

The coins are artifacts from the English Civil War in the 1600s, thought to be buried the day before a battle.

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