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“It is difficult to picture the rich, hard-nosed advisors of James I being overly concerned about the rights of vagabonds and felons. But this was a period that was especially suspicious of arbitrary acts by the Crown against individuals. There was no law enabling the crown to exile anyone, including the baser convict, into forced labour. According to legal scholars, the Magna Carta itself protected even them. The Privy Councillors therefore dressed up what was to befall the convicts and presented the decree authorising their transportation as an act of royal mercy. The convicts were to be reprieved from death in exchange for accepting transportation. (71-71)”
― White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain’s White Slaves in America
― White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain’s White Slaves in America
“A decision was taken to attach the terrible label ‘regicide’ to those who had been present in the High Court as Charles I’s death sentence was pronounced and from their number to select the death list of seven. Thirty-seven of these men were still alive, and the order went out to sheriffs and other law officers across the country to seize them and seize their property. The seven were deemed to be unpardonable and were wholly ‘excepted’ from the Bill of Indemnity. They could expect the full savagery of a traitor’s death – hanging, castration and disembowelment before the victim was beheaded and the trunk quartered so parts could be displayed across the land.”
― The King's Revenge: Charles II and the Greatest Manhunt in British History
― The King's Revenge: Charles II and the Greatest Manhunt in British History
“As the trial opened, most of London had thoughts of little else. The king was often otherwise engaged; he was spending increasing amounts of time with his new mistress, the very beautiful and willing Barbara Villiers, with whom he was totally infatuated. It was said that their relationship ‘did so disorder him that often he was not master of himself nor capable of minding business, which in so critical a time, required great application’.3 Hyde, a fastidious man, found Charles’s philandering a considerable irritation. He was also infuriated by the king’s general lack of attention to matters of state; but Charles’s inattentiveness and apparent laziness were traits developed over long years of exile and futility and were to prove fixed within his character.”
― The King's Revenge: Charles II and the Greatest Manhunt in British History
― The King's Revenge: Charles II and the Greatest Manhunt in British History
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