• the 17th century Puritan physician Alexander Leighton incurred the wrath of King Charles I for publishing a pamphlet denouncing bishops, and was sentenced by his Star Chamber to public whipping, branding, and having his ears cut off?

Facts on topics related to King Charles I

Charles I of England

• George Stewart, 9th Seigneur d'Aubigny (pictured) who was killed at the age of 24 at Edgehill, the first pitched battle of the English Civil War, was a cousin of King Charles I of England?
• John Harrison (pictured), seventeenth century benefactor of Leeds, is reputed to have slipped Charles I a tankard of gold coins disguised as beer?
• William Marshall produced an engraving (pictured) of Charles I of England as a Christian martyr for the Eikon Basilike, published ten days after the King was executed in 1649?
• William Wroth founded the first independent chapel in Wales in 1639, after he refused to obey King Charles' instruction to allow sports to be played on Sundays?
• Judges Cave and Regicides Trail in West Rock Ridge, Connecticut, USA were named for two judges who hid in the area in 1660 after signing the death warrant of the King Charles I?
• despite being appointed to the usually profitable post of comptroller to Prince Charles in 1616, John Vaughan, 1st Earl of Carbery later claimed that serving the Prince had cost him £20,000?
• during the English Civil War, Charles I was staying in Gamul House, Chester, Cheshire, when his army was defeated at the Battle of Rowton Moor?
• during the reign of the English Commonwealth, worshippers at St. Stephen Coleman Street seeking Communion had to first be approved by a committee partly staffed by signatories of Charles I's death warrant?
• in 1649, Thomas Andrewes attended the execution of King Charles I, was responsible for proclaiming the abolition of the English monarchy, and was appointed to be the Lord Mayor of London?
• one of Sir Henry Firebrace's escape plans for Charles I of England failed when the king got stuck in a window frame?

English Civil War

• Carlbury hill was the site of an English Civil War battery emplacement for a Royalist contingent at the Battle of Piercebridge?
• Cliffe, Richmondshire, where the "clock stopped, never to go again", is surrounded by archaeological features including barrows, a Roman road and an English Civil War battleground?
• Cothelstone Manor was largely destroyed during the English Civil War and rebuilt 200 years later?
• Denton Hall (pictured), once the home of General Fairfax, the English Civil War commander-in-chief, was later sold for less than the value of the timber on the estate?
• George Stewart, 9th Seigneur d'Aubigny (pictured) who was killed at the age of 24 at Edgehill, the first pitched battle of the English Civil War, was a cousin of King Charles I of England?
• Gilbert Mabbot (1622–1670) was a pioneering journalist during the English Civil War who also served as an official licenser of the press?
• Sir Trevor Williams of Llangybi in Wales changed sides between Royalists and Parliamentarians four times in the English Civil War, before being imprisoned for the crime of scandalum magnatum?
• Skinnand is a deserted medieval village in Lincolnshire, and that its Norman church was probably burned down by Oliver Cromwell in the English Civil War?
• St Symphorian's Church in Durrington, West Sussex, was wrecked during the English Civil War by Parliamentarian villagers, who disliked their rector's Royalist views and unintelligible preaching?
• during the English Civil War, Royalist soldiers fired artillery at Leicester from Raw Dykes Roman earthwork?