Charles I's Killers in America, The Lives and Afterlives of Edward Whalley and William Goffe by Jenkinson, Matthew -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover page Halftitle page Title page Copyright page Dedication page Preface Acknowledgements Contents List of illustrations Abbreviations and conventions Part I. Lives

1. Introduction

Civil war Prisoner and guard ‘A man of blood’ Interregnum and Restoration

2. Regicides on the run I: Gravesend to Milford

Cambridge and Boston Trials and executions Massachusetts Bay New Haven Governor Endecott’s commission Surrender? Guilt and repentance?

3. Regicides on the run II: Milford to Hartford

Three captured regicides A royal commission Hadley Rebunking myths: the Angel of Hadley Edward Randolph’s regicide fixation Hartford A paper-chase?

Part II. Afterlives

4. Thomas Hutchinson and the regicides’ rediscovery

Forgetting and remembering the regicides Thomas Hutchinson’s ‘lesson in obedience’ Commemoration and sedition ‘Unkinging’ kings Loyalty and disloyalty

5. Ezra Stiles, the regicides, and the American Revolution

Ezra Stiles’s regicide myths Stiles’s ‘martyrs of freedom’ in context English Revolution to American Revolution Revisiting the royal commission of 1664

6. The spirit of the regicides, liberty, and American national identity

British to American literature The spirit(s) of the regicides Bacon’s—and Whalley’s?—rebellion The regicides and liberty Writing Randolph Beyond fiction

7. The regicides’ revival, rise, and decline

America’s civil war and the regicides Centenaries and cycles Stage to page Bodies The wrong Whalley? Finding Goffe Rise and decline

8. Conclusion

Appendix I: Dramatis personae Appendix II: Timeline of the movements of Whalley and Goffe Appendix III: The diary of William Goffe Appendix IV: The (dis)appearance of John Dixwell Notes Bibliography Picture acknowledgements Index

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