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The King's Smuggler: Jane Whorwood, Secret Agent to Charles I

By Fox , John

Book information

Publisher
The History Press
Year
2011
ISBN
1919-24-346-1, 978-0-7524-6903-4, 978-0-7524-6904-1
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
1 MB (1066136 bytes)
Pages
\0
Time added
2017-08-15 11:00:00

Description

Overview: Jane Whorwood was one of Charles I’s 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 1,000 kg) to help pay for his army. When Charles was held captive by the Parliamentarians, from 1646 to 1649, she organized 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, Jane’s marriage collapsed in the one of the most public and acrimonious cases of the seventeenth century. John Fox describes the life of this fascinating woman, and the important role she played in the English Civil War.

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