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Jane Whorwood was one of Charles Is closest confidantes. 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 gold (perhaps as much as 1,000kg) 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 for him. New evidence even suggests that they may have had a brief affair. After his execution in 1649, Janes marriage collapsed in one.;Pages:1 to 25; Pages:26 to 50; Pages:51 to 75; Pages:76 to 100; Pages:101 to 125; Pages:126 to 150; Pages:151 to 175; Pages:176 to 200; Pages:201 to 225; Pages:226 to 226.

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For Glen, Karl, Mark, Daniel,

With Ellen and Osian

Our Secret Islanders

Contents

Westminster

Oxford

Newcastle to the Isle of Wight

Oxford and London

My wife and family have put up with Jane Whorwood and Holtons secret island for years. In fact, Holton Parks landscape, evocative and barely chronicled, prompted the search which became this book. The editors of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography trusted me with their new article, Jane Whorwood, in 2009. Stephanie Jenkins, Kevin Heritage and Nigel Philips enthused me about the Whorwoods, whose former home, Holton Park, now Wheatley Park, hosts a comprehensive school. It enriches their teaching of history. Marian Brown of St Bartholomews church, Holton, and Julia Dobson of Holton village, history whisperers, encouraged me quietly. Caroline Daltons hoard of local wills and Kay Hays midlands discoveries have been unofficial archives, while professional staff ever cheerful at the Bodleian; thoughtful at Lambeth Palace have helped greatly. These include Guildhall Library, British Library, London School of Economics, The National Archive at Kew, National Archives of Scotland, Royal Library at Windsor Castle, municipal and county archives in Westminster, Kingston, Windsor, Oxfordshire, Kent, Surrey, Dover Cinque Ports, Newport IoW and the English and Scottish National Portrait Galleries. Christies auction house also chimed in. I cannot hope to comb the tens of thousands of seventeenth-century wills held in TNA, Kew, let alone those in Edinburgh, but the several hundred which I have explored threw up many unexpected clues to Jane Whorwoods life. No book is a final word. I hope this one is presented humbly enough to welcome finds and revisions, and that the reading is as enjoyable as the search has been. Simon Hamlet and the editorial staff at The History Press have been patient with my afterthoughts and additions.

John Prest, fellow Vetelegan and Balliol historian, read my manuscript, claiming with typical modesty to represent only the mythical general reader. Allan Dell shared his ancestor, William Dell; Emma Clarke-Bolton of Sarah Eastel Locations guided me through the maze which is English Heritage; Robin Harcourt Williams and Victoria Perry on behalf of the Marquess of Salisbury were hospitably efficient; Rosalind Marshall gave freely of her expertise on the Hamiltons and, with Bruce Royan, kindly secured me access to the Virtual Hamilton Palace research project; Mark Bateson of Canterbury Cathedral, Sarah Poynting of Keele University, Malcolm Gaskill of the University of East Anglia, Martin Maw of OUP and my numismatist friends from the Ashmolean (Heberden) Coin Room patiently fielded my sometimes gormless questions; Antony Green, anthropologist and former pupil, combed out red hair for me; Tim Wilson, Curator of Western Art at the Ashmolean, and Philippa Glanville, formerly Curator of Metalwork, Plate and Jewellery at the Victoria and Albert Museum, pondered at really generous length the significance of plate and jewels inventoried at Holton Park in 1684; Tony Lynas Grey of Oxford University Dept of Astrophysics quite literally shed moonlight on the kings letter of 3 May 1648. The curators of Carisbrooke Castle Museum and the owners of Passenham Manor welcomed us warmly; Maureen Jakob has familiarised our family with Hampton Court Palace across half a century, and is thanked with love. Kevin Heritage produced the genealogies. Andrew Kinnier introduced me both to Cromwells Sydney Sussex College and James Maxwells Inns of Court. Martin Roberts, a valued colleague of many years and a historian of repute, quietly and tangibly encouraged my history hinterland. I thank him warmly for this and much else.

The books shortcomings and mistakes are mine, as are its idiosyncrasies. I use [parentheses] to clarify opaque period writing. I replace civil war with the War and Wartime: even contemporaries thought that civil was inappropriate to describe the brutalising of the community. I cite Mrs in full, to remind that Mistress was stronger than the muttered abbreviation of today, and indicated rank; Mr (Master) was also stronger, but its full form is dead beyond reviving. John Taylor the Water Poet, whose biographer calls him a genial companion, has been adopted as company through the book, lightening up Wartime Oxford, romanticising the Thame at Wheatley Bridge, enjoying beer and oysters on the Medway, and kissing the kings hand at Carisbrooke. Wartime was not all sombre and Taylor made contemporaries laugh, like the pub landlord he was. Finally, in Chapter 6, I have dared to reconstruct from evidence, for the first time, the overlooked Cromwell family wedding in the Whorwood house at Holton. It marked the first anniversary of Naseby and allowed the commanders of the new-modelled Army an occasion to leap and smile when the War seemed to be over. Oxford was about to surrender, and Naseby had been pivotal in the victory. The wedding by the new Parliamentarian rite was a cameo of national issues. It was also a dramatic Whorwood event in which the Whorwoods, Jane and mother-in-law Lady Ursula, the recusants daughter, were completely silent participants. If only for that, it deserves its airing here.

John Fox

APCActs of the Privy Council
CCAMCalendar of the Committee for the Advance of Money
CCCCalendar of the Committee for Compounding (and Sequestration)
CSPCalendar of State Papers
HEREnglish Historical Review
HCJHouse of Commons Journal
HLJHouse of Lords Journal
HMCHistorical Manuscripts Commission (Reports)
LSELondon School of Economics
Ms(s)Manuscript(s)
NASNational Archives of Scotland
ODNBOxford Dictionary of National Biography (New DNB)
PROBProbate
RPCSRecords of the Privy Council of Scotland
SPState Papers
TNAThe National Archive (formerly PRO, Public Record Office)
1603James VI of Scotland succeeds Elizabeth I as James I of England
1612Jeane Ryder born to Scots courtiers at Westminster
1615Brome Whorwood born at Holton Park, Oxfordshire
1617James I and VI visits Scotland; William Ryder dies
1619Jeanes mother remarries to James Maxwell, Black Rod. Queen Anne dies
1625Charles I succeeds James I; Maxwells influence grows at court
1625Parliament removes to Oxford to avoid plague
1628Buckingham, favourite of Charles I and James I, assassinated
1629Parliament dissolves itself; King Charles rules alone until 1640
1634Brome Whorwood marries Jeane Ryder (Jane Whorwood)
1636The court and Archbishop Laud visit Oxford
163941Charles I defeated in two Scottish or Bishops wars
1640Short Parliament (1640); Long Parliament (164048); Rump (164853; 165860)
1642Charles declares war against Parliament, August; Edgehill battle, October
16424Jane smuggles gold and intelligence into Oxford, Charless war capital
1644Scots Covenanting Army invades in support of Parliament
1645Parliament abolishes Anglican Church and re-models Army; Naseby battle, June
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