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Front page of Mercurius Civicus: Londons Intelligencer , February 1643, (1945)

Front page of "Mercurius Civicus: London's Intelligencer", February 1643, (1945). Portraits of King Charles I and Queen Henrietta Maria, with news of the Civil War: Letters intercepted from the King, Queene, L. Digby [George Digby], and Iermin [Henry Jermyn], to the Lord Goring in France. "Bandon-bridge neere Chester taken by Sir Thomas Fairfax. The Irish Rebels joyned with Cardinall Williams in Wales"...The interest which every good subject hath in the actions of the King and Parliament, is sufficient to defend him from the imputation of being a Busie-bodie, in maintaining the Justice of them, That, and my desire not onely to give satisfaction unto my countrymen in the most certaine intelligence that should come to my hands, but also to admonish (especially the City... "Mercurius Civicus: Londons Intelligencer, or, Truth impartially related from thence to the whole Kingdome to prevent mis-information" was a weekly newspaper which supported the Roundhead (Parliamentary) cause. It was published by John Wright and Thomas Bates between 1643 and 1646. From "British Journalists and Newspapers", by Derek Hudson. [Collins, London, 1945]

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Sir R. Fanshaw, (1608-1666), 1830. Creator: Unknown

Sir R. Fanshaw, (1608-1666), 1830. Sir Richard Fanshawe, 1st Baronet (1608-1666) English poet, translator, linguist, diplomat and politician, educated at Jesus College, Cambridge. Sat in the House of Commons from 1661 to 1666 and supported the Royalists During the English Civil War and served King Charles II. From "Biographical Illustrations", by Alfred Howard. [Thomas Tegg, R. Griffin and Co., J. Cumming, London, Glasgow and Dublin, 1830]

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Thomas Case, M.A., 17th century, (late 18th-early 19th century). Creator: Robert Cooper

Thomas Case, M.A., 17th century, (late 18th-early 19th century). Portrait of Thomas Case (c1598-1682), English clergyman and ejected minister. Case was a defender of the Parliamentary cause during the English Civil War, but he fell out of sympathy with the regicides and became a supporter of the Restoration of the Stuart monarchy. He was ejected by Parliament from the rectory of St. Mary Magdalen, Milk Street, in 1649. From a Print prefixed to the Farewell Sermons of the Ejected Ministers'. [Published by Charles & Henry Baldwyn, London]

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