The King's Smuggler - John Fox

The King's Smuggler

Jane Whorwood, Secret Agent to Charles I

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
2022 | 2nd edition
The History Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-7509-9940-3 (ISBN)
18,65 inkl. MwSt
Using known and new evidence, John Fox provides the first biography of this extraordinary woman, a forgotten key player in the English Civil War.
Jane Whorwood(1612–84) was one of Charles I’s closest confidantes. The daughter of Scots courtiers at Whitehall and the wife of an Oxfordshire squire, when the court moved to Oxford in 1642, at the start of the Civil War, she helped the Royalist cause by spying for the king and smuggling at least three-quarters of a ton of gold to help pay for his army. When Charles was held captive by the Parliamentarians, from 1646 to 1649, she organised money, correspondence, several escape attempts, astrological advice and a ship to carry him to Holland. The king and she also had a wartime ‘brief encounter’. After Charles’s execution in 1649, Jane’s marriage collapsed in one of the most public and acrimonious separation cases of the seventeenth century.

Using crucial evidence, John Fox provides a detailed biography of this extraordinary woman, a forgotten key player in the English Civil War.

JOHN FOX is an education consultant and former teacher. He has written a number of local history books, contributed fifty history articles to the Oxford Illustrated Encyclopaedia and written the new, updated entry for Jane Whorwood in the DNB. He lives near Oxford.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 16 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort Stroud
Sprache englisch
Maße 129 x 198 mm
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Literatur Briefe / Tagebücher
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Geschichte / Politik
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10 0-7509-9940-3 / 0750999403
ISBN-13 978-0-7509-9940-3 / 9780750999403
Zustand Neuware
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