Charles I

Joey.

Yes, bubonic plague, a Native American practice, and a King Charles I tax.

And here are your brand new starters with two leftovers as well.

The first one is, what outnumbers what by 199,992.5 quintillion?

while you're at it.

Yep.

Bubonic plague, a Native American practice, and a King Charles I tax.

Here's a couple of starters.

The so-called Wicked Bible is a book that is seldom met with and therefore in great demand.

It was printed in the time of Charles I and it is notorious because it omits the adverb not in its version of the seventh commandment.

The printers were fined a large sum for this gross error.

Six copies of the Wicked Bible are known to be in existence.

Judge Methuen has been a victim—a pleasant victim—to the catalogue habit for the last forty years, and he has declared that if all the catalogues sent to and read by him in that space of time were gathered together in a heap they would make a pile bigger than Pike's Peak and a thousandfold more interesting.

I myself have been a famous reader of catalogues, and I can testify that the habit has possessed me of remarkable delusions, the most conspicuous of which is that which produces within me the conviction that a book is as good as mine as soon as I have met with its title in a catalogue and set an X over against it in pencil.

I recall that on one occasion I was discussing with Judge Methuen and Dr. Orell the attempted escapes of Charles I from Carisbrooke Castle.

A point of difference having arisen, I said, "Gentlemen, I will refer to Hillier's Narrative, and I doubt not that my argument will be sustained by that authority."

Milton actually wrote that it was the duty, not just the right, but the duty of a nation to rise up and dethrone, dethrone through execution, legitimate, though legitimate, king.

Milton, in fact, was largely responsible in a cultural sense for the fact that the armed rebellion of England's Civil War, what we think of as the Puritan Revolution, actually led to the execution by decapitation of England's monarch Charles I in 1649.

And on top of all of this political revolution, political radicalism, Milton was one of the first intellectuals in Europe to speak out in favor not only of divorce Milton argued for the right to divorce on grounds of incompatibility, but also he argued in favor of the right to plural marriage, polygamy.

He was branded as a radical and dangerous debunker of traditional Christian family Now many of you know that Milton, in his later years, was blind.

Not Milton himself would cry up liberty to poor female slaves, or plead for the lawfulness, or resisting a private tyranny.

So Milton, for Astell, is hardly the embodiment of orthodoxy that he is for Lady Mary Chudley.

For Astell, Milton remains the subversive revolutionary whose treatises against the tyranny of the Stuart monarchy, whose treatises against the tyranny of Charles I, established his reputation as a liberator, a liberator of all of the oppressed and enslaved citizens of England.

That rhetoric belongs to Milton himself.

The grey mullet, Mugil capito, was a favourite prey of the cormorant.

In Sir Thomas Browne's time, the cormorants nested at Reedham upon trees whence King Charles I was wont to be supplied.

In Lubbock's time, it still nested around Fritton Decoy in some years in numbers.

In other years, not a nest was to be seen.

1878.

September the 17th.

Kingfishers have been very numerous in the locality.

Not a rare thing has it been to see half a dozen birds in the course of a walk before breakfast by the River Bure.

So we're going to remove them because they committed crimes back then.

You know, in England right now, there still are monuments, still statues to Charles I.

A man that was beheaded by Parliament for essentially treason.

That's what they accused him of.

Treason.

Beheaded.

Still monuments to Charles I. There's a monument to George Washington in London.

And yet, I mean, in public place of veneration, public places, and yet we can't have monuments to people in America that the open question of treaty is still open.

Check this out.

King Edward IV, King Edward V, King Richard III, King Henry VII, King Henry VIII, King Edward VI, Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth, King James, and King Charles.

And he died aged 152 years.

Which is a ripe old age, and I suspect that your antennae were buzzing.

The grey mullet, Mugil capito, was a favourite prey of the cormorant.

In Sir Thomas Browne's time, the cormorants nested at Reedham, upon trees whence King Charles I was wont to be supplied.

In Lubbock's time, it still nested around Fritton Decoy in some years in numbers.

In other years, not a nest was to be seen.

1878.

September the seventeenth.

Kingfishers have been very numerous in the locality.

Not a rare thing has it been to see half a dozen birds in the course of a walk before breakfast by the River Bure.