قراءة كتاب Explanatory Notes of a Pack of Playing Cards, Temp Charles II. Forming a Complete Political Satire of the Commonwealth
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Explanatory Notes of a Pack of Playing Cards, Temp Charles II. Forming a Complete Political Satire of the Commonwealth
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37. X of Hearts. "The Rump and dreggs of the house of Com. remaining after the good Members were purged out." The explanation of this Card will be found above. (See VIII of Clubs.) 38. X of Clubs. "Oliver seeking God while the K. is murthered by his order." Cromwell who signed the warrant for the Execution of Charles I., is said to have spent the night of the 29th of January, 1648, in prayer, and to have taken good care to let his fanatic followers know it. 39. X of Spades. "A comitte at Haberdashers hall to spoyle the caualeers, as the Jews did the Egyptians." Parliament, after the battle of Edgehill appointed a committee to sit at Haberdashers Hall to consider the fines to be imposed upon those of the King's adherents who had been taken prisoners there. 40. X of Diamonds "A comittee for plundered ministers, Miles Corbet in the chaire." This card speaks for itself. |
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37. X of Hearts. "The Rump and dreggs of the house of Com. remaining after the good Members were purged out." The explanation of this Card will be found above. (See VIII of Clubs.) 38. X of Clubs. "Oliver seeking God while the K. is murthered by his order." Cromwell who signed the warrant for the Execution of Charles I., is said to have spent the night of the 29th of January, 1648, in prayer, and to have taken good care to let his fanatic followers know it. 39. X of Spades. "A comitte at Haberdashers hall to spoyle the caualeers, as the Jews did the Egyptians." Parliament, after the battle of Edgehill appointed a committee to sit at Haberdashers Hall to consider the fines to be imposed upon those of the King's adherents who had been taken prisoners there. 40. X of Diamonds "A comittee for plundered ministers, Miles Corbet in the chaire." This card speaks for itself. |
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41. Knave of Hearts. "Hugh Peters shews the bodkins and thimbles gluen by the wives of Wappin for the good old cause." Hugh Peters was born at Fowey, publicly whipped and expelled from the University of Cambridge, and obliged to leave England for adultery. After some years spent in Holland and America, he returned in 1641, and became chaplain to Lord Brooke's regiment. He was a most burlesque preacher, and actually performed the act stated on the card. He styled the king Barabbas and compared the army to Christ. He advised the destruction of Stonehenge. Clarendon calls him the "ungodly confessor" who contrived the tragedy of the two Hothams (Rebellion, vol. ii. p. 383). He is said to have been one of the masked executioners of Charles I. He was beheaded October 16th 1660, and certainly deserved his fate if any of the Regicides did. 42. Knave of Clubs. "Ireton holds that saints may pass through all forms to obtain his ends." Ireton was born in 1610, and commanded the left wing of the Parliamentarians at Naseby. He married a daughter of Oliver Cromwell, whom he succeeded as Commander-in-Chief in Ireland, where he died in 1651. 43. Knave of Spades. "Sir H. Vane finds a distinction betwixt a Legal and an Evangelical Conscience." Vane was the principal mover of the Solemn League and Covenant, but did not sit on the King's trial. 44. Knave of Diamonds. "H. Martin moues ye House that ye King may take the Covenant." Martin, Vane and Hazelrigg were the principal supporters of the self-denying Ordinance. |
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41. Knave of Hearts. "Hugh Peters shews the bodkins and thimbles gluen by the wives of Wappin for the good old cause." Hugh Peters was born at Fowey, publicly whipped and expelled from the University of Cambridge, and obliged to leave England for adultery. After some years spent in Holland and America, he returned in 1641, and became chaplain to Lord Brooke's regiment. He was a most burlesque preacher, and actually performed the act stated on the card. He styled the king Barabbas and compared the army to Christ. He advised the destruction of Stonehenge. Clarendon calls him the "ungodly confessor" who contrived the tragedy of the two Hothams (Rebellion, vol. ii. p. 383). He is said to have been one of the masked executioners of Charles I. He was beheaded October 16th 1660, and certainly deserved his fate if any of the Regicides did. 42. Knave of Clubs. "Ireton holds that saints may pass through all forms to obtain his ends." Ireton was born in 1610, and commanded the left wing of the Parliamentarians at Naseby. He married a daughter of Oliver Cromwell, whom he succeeded as Commander-in-Chief in Ireland, where he died in 1651. 43. Knave of Spades. "Sir H. Vane finds a distinction betwixt a Legal and an Evangelical Conscience." Vane was the principal mover of the Solemn League and Covenant, but did not sit on the King's trial. 44. Knave of Diamonds. "H. Martin moues ye House that ye King may take the Covenant." Martin, Vane and Hazelrigg were the principal supporters of the self-denying Ordinance. |
