Roundhead Gallery

The Royal Progress through London

Queen Elizabeth's Pocket Pistol, Dover Caste, Dover, Kent. "Load me well and keep me clean, I'll carry my ball to Calais Green.". This artillery piece is a cannon built in 1544 in Utrecht by Jan Tolhuys, before Elizabeth I came to the throne. The gun was presented to Henry VIII by Maximiliaan van Egmond, Count of Buren and Stadtholder of Friesland as a gift for his young daughter Elizabeth. In 1644, the gun saw action at the siege of Hull and the Siege of Sheffield (having been recaptured by the Roundheads). Date: 1911

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Front page of Mercurius Civicus: Londons Intelligencer , February 1643, (1945)

Front page of "Mercurius Civicus: London's Intelligencer", February 1643, (1945). Portraits of King Charles I and Queen Henrietta Maria, with news of the Civil War: Letters intercepted from the King, Queene, L. Digby [George Digby], and Iermin [Henry Jermyn], to the Lord Goring in France. "Bandon-bridge neere Chester taken by Sir Thomas Fairfax. The Irish Rebels joyned with Cardinall Williams in Wales"...The interest which every good subject hath in the actions of the King and Parliament, is sufficient to defend him from the imputation of being a Busie-bodie, in maintaining the Justice of them, That, and my desire not onely to give satisfaction unto my countrymen in the most certaine intelligence that should come to my hands, but also to admonish (especially the City... "Mercurius Civicus: Londons Intelligencer, or, Truth impartially related from thence to the whole Kingdome to prevent mis-information" was a weekly newspaper which supported the Roundhead (Parliamentary) cause. It was published by John Wright and Thomas Bates between 1643 and 1646. From "British Journalists and Newspapers", by Derek Hudson. [Collins, London, 1945]

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Memorial in St. Pauls Churchyard of the Cross Destroyed By The Roundheads, c1935

Memorial in St. Paul's Churchyard of the Cross Destroyed By The Roundheads, c1935. St Paul's Cross was a preaching cross and open-air pulpit in the grounds of Old St Paul's Cathedral in London. The cross and pulpit were destroyed by Puritans in 1643 during the First English Civil War. The spot was marked by a monument erected between 1908 and 1910, consisting of a Doric column of Portland stone designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield, with a statue of St Paul by Sir Bertram Mackennal. From "Wonderful London, Volume 1", edited by Arthur St John Adcock. [The Fleetway House, London, c1935]

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