Thomas Harrison is today perhaps best remembered for the manner of his death. As a leading member of the republican regime and signatory to Charles I's death warrant, he was hanged, drawn and quartered by the Restoration government in 1660.
The Blackwells as radicals, merchants, financiers and administrators illustrate the importance of kinship, the development of the early modern state in London and the ownership of the memory of the civil wars across a century of wars and revolutions.
Suitable for specialists in the area and students taking courses on early modern English, European and American history as well as those with a more general interest in the period.
This volume centres on Colonel Philip Jones, Griffith Lloyd, and Rowland Dawkins. These three men, all from Glamorgan and... Læs mere