Killers of Charles I

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Jeffrey Collins, Capital Punishment; Many of King Charles I’s killers were captured by former allies who needed to prove their own conveniently rediscovered royalism. Wall Street Journal, Jan 23, 2015
www.wsj.com/articles/book-review ... -spencer-1421970609
(book review on Charles Spencer, Killers of the King; The men who dared to execute Charles I, Bloombury, 2014)

Note:
(a) The publisher’s webpage
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/killers-of-the-king-9781408851715/
shows a cover that is slightly wider than the one in the WSJ review (take note of the right margin, where the oblique view reveals more. It is clear that the cover are the visage of Charles I (in three: profile, frontal view, and oblique)

(b) "On Jan. 26, 1661, in Westminster Abbey, the tomb of Oliver Cromwell was broken open and his corrupted corpse was removed. Four days later, it was ritually hanged and beheaded at Tyburn before thousands of jeering onlookers."
(i) Oliver Cromwell  (1599-1658)
(ii) Tyburn
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyburn

, where "ty" is pronounced the same as the word "tie."

(c) "During the English Civil War he [Cromwell] had commanded the victorious armies of Parliament against King Charles I. He had engineered the king’s public trial for treason and then his execution in 1649, eventually ruling all of Britain as Lord Protector. But this revolution did not survive his death, and in 1660 the monarchy was restored by the king’s eldest son, Charles II. Oliver Cromwell, once lionized by John Milton himself as 'our chief of men,' was now the hated ringleader of the regicides."
(i) English Civil War
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Civil_War
("The first (1642–46) and second (1648–49) wars pitted the supporters of King Charles I against the supporters of the Long Parliament, while the third (1649–51) saw fighting between supporters of King Charles II and supporters of the Rump Parliament. The war ended with the Parliamentarian victory at the Battle of Worcester on Sept 3, 1651. The overall outcome of the war was threefold: the trial and execution of Charles I; the exile of his son, Charles II; and the replacement of English monarchy with, at first, the Commonwealth of England (1649–53) and then the Protectorate (1653–59) under Oliver Cromwell's personal rule")
(ii) Commonwealth of England
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_of_England
(section 1,1 Rump Parliament [qv], 1.1.4 Dismissal: Cromwell, aided by Thomas Harrison, forcibly dismissed the Rump on 20 April 1653, for reasons that are unclear)
(iii) John Milton
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Milton(1608-1674)

(d) "The regicides, about 70 in number, were men who signed the king’s death warrant or assisted in his trial and beheading. * * * the public trial of a king was unprecedented."

regicide (n)
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/regicide

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(e) "The author is a practiced writer with an eye for striking details. These, it must be said, tend toward the gruesome—the niceties of drawing and quartering * * * 'Killers of the King' is a kind of potboiler, lightly researched and largely compiled from contemporary memoirs and belles-lettristic histories from the Victorian era.
(i) nicety (n): "a small detail [in summary section] * * * a fine point or distinction :  subtlety <the niceties of table manners>”
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nicety
(ii) potboiler (n)
www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=potboiler
(iii) The “belles-lettristic” is an adjective. The noun counterpart is “belles-lettres” (plural).
(A) belles-lettres
www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=belles-lettres
(B) belles-lettres
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belles-lettres
(iii) pronunciation (because this is a French word, the “s” at the end is silent)::

belles-lettres (n): “literature that is an end in itself and not merely informative; specifically :  light, entertaining, and often sophisticated literature”
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/belles-lettres

(f) "Goffe Street and Whalley Avenue in New Haven, Conn, are named for regicides who fled there."

John Dixwell
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dixwell
(William Goffe and Edward Whalley)
(g) "Most of the condemned died bravely and without remorse. Thomas Harrison was taunted as he approached the gallows: 'Where is your good old cause now?' Touching his chest, Harrison replied: 'Here it is, and I go to seal it with my blood.'"

Thomas Harrison(soldier)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Harrison_(soldier)
(1606-1660)

(h) "Mr Collins is a professor of history at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario."
(i) Queen’s University
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen's_University
(public; The Church of Scotland established Queen's College in 1841 with a royal charter from Queen Victoria)
(ii) Kingston, Ontario
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingston,_Ontario
(a city where the St Lawrence River flows out of Lake Ontario; "was referred to as 'the King's Town' or 'King's Town' by 1787 in honour of King George III. The name was shortened to 'Kingston' in 1788")