Edmund Verney

Actually, they got worse because in January 1643, Sir Philip's nephew, George de Carteret, and he's more commonly known as George Carteret from now on, George de Carteret arrived with some ships intending to use the island as a base from which to supply royalist forces in England.

Now, I get the feeling that his uncle, Sir Philip, was in the same position as the hapless Sir Edmund Verney, the king's standard bearer.

I get the feeling that he was caught between his godly religious inclinations and his sense of duty to the crown.

But yeah, the tensions got worse because of George Carteret's arrival.

Yeah.

and recognised several of the spectral competents, including the slain royalist standard-bearer Sir Edmund Verney.

Their findings were formalised in the 1643 pamphlet A Great Wander in Heaven.

If it's a pamphlet with the word wonder in the title, you know it's going to be gold.

Ultimately, no corner of the British Isles was left untouched by a bloody and tragic war that set brother against brother and father against son.

In a letter to his brother, Ralph, the MP Edmund Verney

wrote...

Brother, what I feared is proved to be true, which is your being against the king.