Jessie Childs - The Siege of Loyalty House: A new history of the English Civil War

Henry VIIIs Last Victim:

The Life and Times of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

Gods Traitors:

Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England

. Snow Hill, north-west London. Home to Thomas Johnson the apothecary, Robert Peake the print-seller, Isaac Rowlett the scrivener and William Faithorne, who engraved this map. They all fought at Basing House.. Tower Hill, south-east London. Here, in May 1641, the kings evil counsellor Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, was executed before a huge crowd. The nearby streets, including Water Lane where Marmaduke Rawdon lived, would have teemed.. Thomas Johnsons edition of John Gerards Herball. His bananas top the arrangement in the bottom-left corner.. The Apothecarys Shop opened. Engraving by William Faithorne.. Inside a seventeenth-century printing house, similar to the one where William Faithorne and Thomas Rowlett worked for Robert Peake. Note the physicality of the job.. The carved stern of the Sovereign of the Seas, Charles Is prestigious ship, built in 1637 and boasting 102 bronze guns. To Marmaduke Rawdon, ships were the jewels that adorn the kingdom and the walls of the land. Others saw them as an excuse for Charles to levy tax.. Charles I by Van Dyck. Those who did not bow to divine majesty as readily as his horse might face ruthless measures.. A panel painted by Rubens in the ceiling of the Banqueting House. Hercules, representing Heroic Virtue, takes a club to Civil Discord.. Alleged Catholic-on-Protestant atrocities during the Irish rebellion of 1641. The king and queen were accused of encouraging the uprising to facilitate the raising of an army against Parliament.. Hugh Peter, Puritan preacher of St Sepulchres and Salem. The cursed and damned Cavaliers will rape your handsome wives and deflower your sweet virgins, he told Londoners, (but you that have ugly wives and daughters, you shall escape better). In William Faithornes engraving, Peter gathers sacks of money for the parliamentarian war fund.. The delegates of a peace petition, which was signed by thousands in December 1642 but rejected in the House of Lords. Three of the signatories Marmaduke Rawdon, William Rosewell and Thomas Langley will head the London Regiment at Basing House.. One garrison, two governors:
John Paulet, 5th Marquess of Winchester, Lord of Basing House. His cornet bears the family motto: Aimez Loyaute (Love Loyalty).. Marmaduke Rawdon, garrison governor. His cornet depicts a stoat, an animal that reputedly gave itself up to the hounds before besmirching its ermine fur. The motto translates as: I would rather die than change my course.. Honora, Marchioness of Winchester, chatelaine of Basing House.. Honoras beloved half-brother, Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, Lord General of the parliamentarian army.. The greatest of any subjects house in England. This engraving of Basing House shows the use of low, thick, earthen breastworks by both sides.. William the Conqueror Waller, who launched the first major assault on Basing House.. Artillery damage to the barn, which saw particularly hot action during Wallers assault.. The postures of the musket. Eight out of thirty-two frames from a contemporary drill manual.. Caricature of a plundering soldier, who would rather eat than fight. His helmet is a cauldron, his shield a dripping pan, his bandoliers wine flagons.. A royalist protection order issued to a friend of Thomas Johnson in Hampshire. The damp stains suggest it was kept under the floorboards.. You changed the steel of my tools into weapons and the exercise of my arts into arms: engraver William Faithorne.. To his master and commander Robert Peake.. Hands by Faithorne.. Inigo Jones, one of the greatest talents of the Stuart Age.