Volume 2

Portraits and lives of remarkable and eccentric characters.

Date:
[1819?]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Portraits and lives of remarkable and eccentric characters. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    f> of April, 1642, Charles I. came before the town, attended by a vast number of the nobility and gentry, when, contrary to all expectation, espe¬ cially the King, his entrance was denied, and the gates shut against him, as Sir John Hotham, then upon the wall, peremptorily told him, by autho¬ rity of parliament, by whose trust he kept it; nor could he, by any means, after a long parley, be prevailed upon to reverse the orders of the par¬ liament, This so enraged the king, that he caused Hotham to be immediately proclaimed a traitor. The Duke of York and the Prince Elector Henry Frederick had gone into the town the day before, but were, after some deliber- 4 ation, suffered to go out again and join the king, who, obtaining no satisfaction from his ad¬ dresses to the parliament against Hotham, soon after erected his standard at Nottingham, and commenced the war, which cost him his crown and life. Although he ventured so far in the service of his masters at Westminster, it appears they never reposed implicit trust in him, as they kept spies upon all his actions, among whom was his own son; but, both intriguing with the Marquis of