King Henry VI

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King Henry VI

by Renold or Reginold Elstrack (Elstracke)
line engraving, published 1638 (1618)
7 1/8 in. x 4 5/8 in. (180 mm x 116 mm) paper size
Purchased, 1869
Reference Collection
NPG D9404

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  • King Henry VI (1421-1471), Reigned 1422-61 and 1470-71. Sitter associated with 39 portraits.

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Current affairs

Amid turmoil in Scotland against Charles I's attempt to impose an episcopalian system of church government and Book of Common Prayer, theologian Alexander Henderson and politician Archibald Johnston of Wariston, defiantly draw up a new national covenant, whereby its signatories reaffirm their Presbyterian discipline.

Art and science

Political agitator, John Lilburne, is imprisoned for distributing unlicensed satirical pamphlets against episcopacy.
Luminalia by dramatist Sir William Davenant, is performed by Queen Henrietta Maria and her Ladies-in-Waiting. With designs by Inigo Jones, it was one of the last and most spectacular masques staged at the Stuart Court.

International

Lord High Chancellor Oxenstierna, head of the regency council ruling Sweden until the young Queen Kristina came of age, agrees the Treaty of Hamburg, renewing Sweden's alliance with France. Under its terms, in exchange for financial assistance from France, Sweden continued its military contribution in the Thirty years' War.

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