King Charles dissolved Parliament that same day, going on to rule for eleven years until he was forced to recall the Short Parliament in 1640.
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King Charles dissolved Parliament that same day, going on to rule for eleven years until he was forced to recall the Short Parliament in 1640.
On the 10th March 1629, the Speaker of the House, Sir John Finch, tried to adjourn Parliament on the King’s command, but was held down in his chair by Sir John Eliot, Denzil Holles and Benjamin Valentine while the Commons passed a number of motions against the King’s recent actions.
Reckless spending on wars and disagreements on the appointments of certain bishops to positions of authority had made the relationship untenable.
Also known as the Eleven Years’ Tyranny, the Personal Rule saw King Charles rule without Parliament, and the months leading up to Parliament’s dissolution had seen furious arguments between the King and his MPs.
King Charles’s Personal Rule Begins 👑
There had been hostility between King Charles and Parliament for years before the outbreak of the civil wars, and it was on this day in 1629 that Charles’s frustrations led to the beginning of the Personal Rule.
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Could you crack the code of a secret letter? ✉️👀
We are delighted to announce the winner of the WHN Book Prize. The judges chose Female Servants in Early Modern England by @charmianmansell.bsky.social
The highly readable & engaging book, interrogates long-standing assumptions about the domesticity & constraints of women’s lives in service.
With his position restored Wallis would continue his work as a pioneering cryptographer and mathematician until his death in 1703.
📸: Wallis and Lady Vere examine an encoded letter (Rob Jones)
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When the Restoration did happen Wallis would lose his position as cryptographer until the Glorious Revolution, when his services would again be sought out. He became the cryptographer in the Royal Court of King William III.
The letters and ciphers sent to Wallis now primarily came from the Netherlands, where Royalist conspirators plotted to restore the monarchy.
John Wallis continued to serve the Parliamentarian cause after the Civil Wars ended, and during the Interregnum. He also worked as a scribe at Westminster Abbey and developed his career as a mathematician.
For his services to the Parliamentarian cause he was granted control of the St. Gabriel and St. Martin churches in London.
In one instance he described how he “was backward at first to attempt it, and after I had spent some time upon it, threw it by as desperate: But, after some months, resumed it again and had the good hap to master it.”
Throughout the Civil Wars intercepted letters were sent to Wallis to be decrypted. Wallis admits in his autobiography that at points he did not understand the codes being sent to him, and he had to learn about new ciphers as they arrived to his desk.
When John Wallis saw the letter he, having a passion for numbers and cryptology, decided to decode the message. Within two hours he had decrypted the letter and secured a job as Parliament’s chief cryptographer.
John Wallis was a chaplain to Lady Vere. At a dinner party in London in December 1642 a letter was shown around. This letter was an intercepted Royalist message after the battle of Chichester, however the contents of the message had been encoded.
Could you crack the code of a secret letter? ✉️👀
💥 A matchlock musket fired in slow motion 💥 In this fantastic video from John Beardsworth, filmed at Shaw House in Berkshire, you can see the firing of a replica 17th Century 'matchlock' in slo-mo from three angles... 🧵
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Firing a musket for real can be a real thrill — our muskets do not fire musketballs, but the gunpowder they use is very real and so firing a musket on the battlefield requires special equipment & training.
Thanks to the slow motion of this video, you can clearly see the gunpowder in the pan ignite first and then the charge in the barrel.
when the trigger is pulled, it dips the burning match into a shallow pan on the side of the gun, which is filled with gunpowder. This burns through a touch hole into the barrel and ignites gunpowder that has been compressed with wadding, using a long rod called a 'scouring stick'.
'Match' refers to thin cord, impregnated with saltpetre (potassium nitrate) so that it burns steadily and slowly, and 'lock' refers to the mechanism that fires the gun. The lit match is held in a metal clasp called a 'serpent', which is connected to the trigger.
💥 A matchlock musket fired in slow motion 💥 In this fantastic video from John Beardsworth, filmed at Shaw House in Berkshire, you can see the firing of a replica 17th Century 'matchlock' in slo-mo from three angles... 🧵
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English Civil War reenactors portray the defence of a barricade. A red-coated soldier hands a musket to a woman behind him for reloading, meanwhile another woman hands over a loaded musket. Photo by Michael Molcher
For #InternationalWomensDay, we meet Dorothy Hazard, an English Baptist leader and religious reformer who not only helped establish Bristol's first Baptist church but played a role in the defence of the city during the first English Civil War! 🧵
The city would remain in Royalist hands until 1645, when it fell at a siege by the New Model Army.
Dorothy Hazzard died in 1674, and her religious leadership and role in the defence of Bristol saw the street of Hazzard's Court named in her honour.
📸 Michael Molcher
However, Bristol eventually fell. Although granted the honours of war, which allowed them free passage to the nearest friendly territory and to retain their weapons and personal property, the defenders were plundered by undisciplined Royalists when they marched out on 27 July.
They “did with Wool-sacks and earth, stop up Froom gate, to keep out the enemy from entering,” wrote Hazzard, “and when they had so done, they the said women went to the gunners (this deponent being one of them) and told them, that if they would stand out and fight, they would stand by them.”
