All right, fine - but did he really deserve decapitation?
The votes are in from our scholarly opinion poll. Apparently our readership favours puritans. (Who knew?)
Of 22 who weighed in:
14 (66%!) thought Charles I bore the brunt of the responsibility for the Civil War.
About one quarter (5 - 23%) believed responsibility was shared between him and the puritan/parliamentary party.
2 (9%) thought there were other causes worth discussing.
And none of you–no one!– felt the puritan/parliament were most responsible.
1 comment:
Some would say he got off easy with decapitations.
The old school bad guys would have terminated his lineage as well, not put his boy back on the throne!
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