In London, King Charles I is beheaded for treason on January 30, 1649.
Charles ascended to the English throne in 1625 following the death of his father, King James I. In the first year of his reign, Charles offended his Protestant subjects by marrying Henrietta Maria, a Catholic French princess. He later responded to political opposition to his rule by dissolving Parliament on several occasions and in 1629 decided to rule entirely without Parliament. In 1642, the bitter struggle between king and Parliament for supremacy led to the outbreak of the first English civil war.
The Parliamentarians were led by Oliver Cromwell, whose formidable Ironsides force won an important victory against the king’s Royalist forces at Marston Moor in 1644 and at Naseby in 1645. As a leader of the New Model Army in the second English civil war, Cromwell helped repel the Royalist invasion of Scotland, and in 1646 Charles surrendered to a Scottish army. In 1648, Charles was forced to appear before a high court controlled by his enemies, where he was convicted of treason and sentenced to death. Early in the next year, he was beheaded.
The monarchy was abolished, and Cromwell assumed control of the new English Commonwealth. In 1658, Cromwell died and was succeeded by his eldest son, Richard, who was forced to flee to France in the next year with the restoration of the monarchy and the crowning of Charles II, the son of Charles I. Oliver Cromwell was posthumously convicted of treason, and his body was disinterred from its tomb in Westminster Abbey and hanged from the gallows at Tyburn.
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The Edict of Expulsion of King Edward 1 (which is still in effect as it has never been rescinded) saw them expelled in 1290.
After his ‘Revolution’ and following his act of Regicide on their behalf, Oliver Cromwell allowed their return in 1655. – “In return for financial support will advocate admission of … to England”
In gratitude, fronted by a literal pirate, they founded the Bank of England, a private bank, in 1694.
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The Cromwells were never Christian . They were money changers and the so called Reformation, a money changers psyop, England since the reign of that fat vile degenerate, Henry VIII has been a money changer controlled base of international chaos to disrupt, debase and destroy all Christian unity. This is how Christendom dies.
History get some. Once you do, how the West to be ruled by the Synagogue of Satan is no longer a mystery to you.
Philip II: (1527-1598)
William Thomas Walsh
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Anne had a wart, and something like a goiter; and a sixth finger
on one hand. Her most attractive features seem to have been a
handsome pair of dark eyes and fine black hair. She had an
irresistible charm for some men, of whom Henry was not the first,
and a powerful will which desired to be not a royal mistress, but a
queen.
Against this woman of darkness, as most of the people of
England regarded her, stood two powerful forces: the ancient landed
nobility of England with all their traditions, and the rock of Saint
Peter, defending the institution of Christian marriage and the whole
body of Christ’s teachings. To get rid of the second, by far the more
formidable because a spiritual power, she had to obtain power over
the first; more than that, she had to set up a false spiritual authority
to blind men to the real one until her object was secured. It is hardly
likely that Anne was conscious of all this from the beginning, but
such were the necessities of her case. Whether she sought them or
they sought her, two instruments presented themselves, ready for
her purposes. One was Thomas Cromwell. The other was Cranmer.
Cromwell the moneylender was one of the first of the men of
obscure origin who arose to form the new ruling class of England.
His father, like the founder of the Cecil family, was a small publichouse keeper.
Thomas, one of those born usurers who could be so
useful to great men, became a confidential agent of Wolsey. As his
master fell, he betrayed him, and formed contacts with the King, the
Duke of Norfolk and the Boleyns which made him presently the
master of the royal policy. Norfolk had him elected to the Parliament
of 1529. Cromwell had also international contacts, had traveled
about the continent, and may have fought in Italy.
With no religion but greed for gold and power, he was utterly
unscrupulous, bold and insolent when he could afford to be, cringing
if necessary. All his life, even after he had grown enormously rich on
the loot of the monasteries, he added to his wealth by usury. He was
the founder of that Cromwell family which for the next century would
throw its powerful influence between the English people and the
Catholic Faith they still loved. His nephew and the daughter of
another usurer from Genoa became the grandparents of Oliver
Cromwell. It was the function of Thomas Cromwell to lead Henry by
gradual steps to a position from which he could not retreat, to
terrorize all political opposition by a reign of blood, and to set up a
wall of material interest against both the Church and the ancient
nobility he and his friends wished to supplant.
The English Revolution, so skilfully and gradually promoted by a
small minority acting through bribed or cowed politicians, was now
entering upon its final and decisive phase. In spite of the faits
accomplis of the divorce, the coronation, and the birth of Elizabeth,
in spite of the open breach with Rome, the English Church still
remained thoroughly Catholic in principle and in sympathy, and was
loved and supported. With any Catholic leadership worthy of the
name, there would have been a popular uprising that would have
swept away Cromwell and the Boleyns and all their hirelings.
While the English people waited for help from the Emperor and
hoped that they would somehow muddle through when Henry tired of
Anne and all this nauseating nonsense, Cromwell was showing
himself a master of the modern technique of building up a false
revolution as a pretext for transferring power from one minority to
another. He proceeded by slow and cautious steps at first. Through
Cranmer, in 1534, he caused all the clergy who would sign to make a
declaration that the Bishop of Rome had no more jurisdiction in
England than any other foreign bishop. Both universities signed the
declaration. Likewise, under fear of suppression, did various
monasteries, especially the wealthier and laxer ones. In so doing,
they played directly into Cromwell’s hands.
On the other hand, the orders of friars resisted. This was a
serious matter, for they had the best and most popular preachers.
Their great spiritual strength was that they had no property to lose.
Having refused collectively to sign, the monks were subjected to an
inquisition one by one, commencing with the two Franciscan
Observantine monasteries at Richmond and Greenwich. To a man
they refused to deny the Pope’s spiritual authority. A few days later
two carts full of the brown-robed followers of Saint Francis were
seen joggling through London to the Tower.
In November, 1534, a bought and bullied parliament passed acts
declaring Henry the head of the Church, and granting him the titles
and first-fruits of the Pope. In January, 1535, a Council decree added
his new title to his style. The legalistic revolution was now complete.
But the whole revenue of the English Church, about $35,000,000 a
year in our money, was yet to change hands; and a reign of terror
was thought necessary to prevent the inevitable reaction when men
realized the full import of what had been done.
The first notable martyrdom was that of the Charterhouse
monks, May fourth, 1535. The Empress and young Philip must have
heard of it about June first. The victims were dragged from the Tower
to Tyburn, said the despatch from London, and “without respect for
their order hanged with great ropes. While they were still alive, the
hangman cut out their hearts and bowels and burned them. Then
they were beheaded and quartered, and the parts placed in public
places on long spears. And it is believed that one saw the others’
executions fully carried out before he died—a pitiful and strange
spectacle, for it is long since persons have been known to die with
greater constancy. No change was noted in their color or tone of
speech, and while the executioner was going on they preached and
exhorted the bystanders, with the greatest boldness, to do well and
obey the King in everything that was not against the honor of God
and the Church.”16
It was altogether a new thing, added Chapuys, that Anne
Boleyn’s father and brother, and even her grandfather the Duke of
Norfolk, one of the judges who had condemned the monks to death,
were present with other lords and courtiers, and quite near the
victims. The King himself, it was said, had been eager to see the
butchery. It was to be feared that Henry was growing so used to
cruelty that he would employ it towards Catherine and others; “to
which the concubine will urge him with all her powers. . . . The said
concubine is more haughty than ever, and ventures to tell the King
that he is more bound to her than a man can be to a woman, for she
extricated him from a state of sin; and moreover, that he came out of
it the richest Prince that ever was in England; and that without her he
would not have reformed the Church to his own profit and that of all
the people.”
Other executions followed, and most of the higher clergy were
cowed. There is an illuminating revelation of the state of some of the
secular priests in a groveling letter of the Archbishop of York to
Cromwell, July first, 1535, agreeing to obey orders to have it
preached that the King was head of the church, but protesting that “I
do not know twelve secular priests in my diocese that can preach.
Those who have the best benefices are not resident. . . . Many
benefices are but four pounds, five pounds or six pounds, so that no
learned men will take them; and we are fain to take those who are
presented. . . . I hope the King will consider this, and be content with
my doing the best I can.”17
As in so many persecutions of the Church, before and since, the
enemy received decisive support at the critical moment from “broadminded,”
compromising, political Catholics who were either willing to
sell Christ for a consideration, or more commonly, were deceived or
frightened into thinking, in their flabby souls, that their temporizing
would best serve the cause. In Sir Thomas More and in John Fisher,
Bishop of Rochester, there was more heroic stuff. Both were
prisoners in the Tower in May, 1535. Fisher had then been there for
months. Both were threatened with death before Saint John’s day,
unless they took the Oath of Supremacy. Both refused.
Another example of the company knowledge production factory churning out non fact facts approved for debate by the Plebes.
We should be doing a lot of that here in the United States, with the people in DC currently
Charles was 8 inches shorter at the end of his reign.
If only all of history could be sung by the Pythons!