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Jane Whorwood, Secret Agent to Charles I
John Fox
ISBN: 9780752450018
Format: Hardback
Publisher:The History Press Ltd
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Jane Whorwood (1612-84) was one of Charles I's closest confidantes. She helped the Royalist cause by spying for the king and smuggling at least three-quarters of a ton of gold to help pay for his army. This biography discusses this extraordinary woman, a forgotten key player in the English Civil War.
Jane Whorwood (1612-84) was one of Charles I's closest confidantes. The daughter of Scots courtiers at Whitehall and 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 at least three-quarters of a ton of gold 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 to carry him to Holland. The king and she also had a wartime 'brief encounter'. After Charles' execution in 1649, Jane's marriage collapsed in one of the most public and acrimonious separation cases of the seventeenth century. Using known and new evidence, John Fox provides the first biography of this extraordinary woman, a forgotten key player in the English Civil War.
| ISBN | 0752450018 | | Pages | 224 | | ISBN13 | 9780752450018
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 517 | | Publisher | The History Press Ltd | | Published in | Stroud | | Imprint | The History Press Ltd | | Height (mm) | 234 | | Format | Hardback | | Width (mm) | 156 | | Publication date | 01 Jan 2010 | | Spine width (mm) | 23 | | DEWEY | 942.062092 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | |
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| | | List of Illustrations | | 6 | | | | Preface and Acknowledgments | | 8 | | | | Abbreviations | | 11 | | | | Timeline | | 12 | | | | Genealogy | | 14 | | 1 | | 1612-84: Finding Jane Whorwood | | 15 | | | | Westminster | | | | 2 | | 1612-19: Jeane Ryder, 'Bairn' in a 'Scottified' Court | | 28 | | 3 | | 1619-34: James Maxwell, Black Rod and Stepfather | | 40 | | | | Oxford | | | | 4 | | 1634-42: Four Weddings: Whorwoods, Hamiltons, Cecils and Bowyers | | 52 | | 5 | | 1642-46: 'Madam Jean Whorewood', Gold-Smuggler Royal | | 67 | | 6 | | 1646: The Cromwell Naseby Wedding at Holton House | | 88 | | | | Newcastle to the Isle of Wight | | | | 7 | | 1647: 'Mistress Whorwood, Committee Chairwomen?' | | 106 | | 8 | | November 1647-June 1648: '715' and a Frightened King | | 123 | | 9 | | June-November 1648: 'Sweet 390 ... Your Most Loving 391' | | 145 | | 10 | | November 1648-June 1651: The End of Service | | 163 | | | | Oxford and London | | | | 11 | | 1651-59: Divorce from Bed and Board | | 184 | | 12 | | 1660-84: 'Poor Mistress Whorwood' | | 200 | | | | Index | | 219 |
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