Thomas Manley
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Thomas Manley
by Thomas Cross
line engraving, published 1649
5 1/8 in. x 2 7/8 in. (130 mm x 72 mm) paper size
Given by the daughter of compiler William Fleming MD, Mary Elizabeth Stopford (née Fleming), 1931
Reference Collection
NPG D27927
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- Thomas Cross (active 1644-1682), Engraver. Artist or producer associated with 168 portraits.
Events of 1649back to top
Current affairs
Charged with subverting the nation's laws and liberties and cruelly making war against Parliament and the English people, Charles I is found guilty by a court of 159 commissioners, and beheaded outside the Banqueting House, Whitehall.England is declared a commonwealth and power is entrusted to a Council of State.
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Eikon Basilike, a self-exonerating account of Charles I's rule, is published days after his death. Allegedly written by the king himself, John Gauden, Bishop of Worcester, claimed authorship after the Restoration. Other tributes followed the king's death giving rise to a royalist cult of Charles the Martyr.International
Oliver Cromwell, as lord lieutenant of Ireland, begins his campaign in Ireland to subdue royalist support, and leads English Parliamentarian forces against the Royalist-Confederate coalition. The campaign's bloody massacres, in particular, the Siege of Drogheda and Wexford where Cromwell's troops slaughtered soldiers and civilians alike, became notorious.Comments back to top
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Barbara English
13 June 2019, 20:23
The man who with his father seems to have accompanied Charles I on all his travels from 1641 until Charles's death. They were perhaps responsible for finding him accommodation for the night and food, wherever he went. There is a list by Thomas Manley of where Charles stayed, how many days, and the mileage he travelled, in 'A Third Collection of scarce and valuable tracts on the most interesting and entertaining Subjects' Vol II London printed for F Cogan, 1751 p.288. The Collection says Charles's Iter was printed in 1660. The collection is on line, and sometimes Manley names the house owner, and gives details of events such as the raising of Charles' standard at Nottingham.