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Cromwell's Convicts by John Sadler,Rosie Serdiville Pdf
Cromwell's Convicts not only describes the Battle of Dunbar but concentrates on the grim fate of the soldiers taken prisoner after the battle. On 3 September 1650 Oliver Cromwell won a decisive victory over the Scottish Covenanters at the Battle of Dunbar – a victory that is often regarded as his finest hour – but the aftermath, the forced march of 5,000 prisoners from the battlefield to Durham, was one of the cruellest episodes in his career. The march took them seven days, without food and with little water, no medical care, the property of a ruthless regime determined to eradicate any possibility of further threat. Those who survived long enough to reach Durham found no refuge, only pestilence and despair. Exhausted, starving and dreadfully weakened, perhaps as many as 1,700 died from typhus and dysentery. Those who survived were condemned to hard labour and enforced exile in conditions of virtual slavery in a harsh new world across the Atlantic. Cromwell's Convicts describes their ordeal in detail and, by using archaeological evidence, brings the story right up to date. John Sadler and Rosie Serdiville describe the battle at Dunbar, but their main focus is on the lethal week-long march of the captives that followed. They make extensive use of archive material, retrace the route taken by the prisoners and describe the recent archaeological excavations in Durham which have identified some of the victims and given us a graphic reminder of their fate.
Thomas Cromwell would become England's most powerful and revered politician until his rapid downfall in 1540, but he grew up in a shattered family during the most brutal period of history, starting from Sir Robert Cromwell's cruel 1461 death in England's bloodiest ever battle during the Wars Of The Roses. His family then suffers four generations of misfortune and violence before Thomas is born.As Cromwell suffers a traumatic boyhood, King Henry VII has just ended the reign of Richard III at the 1485 Battle Of Bosworth, thanks to thousands of extra Flemish mercenary soldiers that Henry could hire using vast loans, which he secures from the bank run by Lorenzo de Medici in Florence. Sixteen years on from Bosworth, Cromwell finds himself as a soldier in this same Flemish mercenary brigade. The influence on English rulers by the Medici Bank and other wealthy Italian families, like the Lomellini and the Frescobaldi, has existed for over a hundred years, not just in London. Daughters are a political pawn to be traded like a shipload of quality Cotswold cloth. Sexual violence and infidelity are acceptable nearly everywhere, led by the most powerful monarchs, nobles or cardinals. But the story highlights two women who rise above this male cruelty: Maddalena de Medici and Valeria di Casentino.Cromwell thrives on the stages of Renaissance Europe. After his father's beatings, then prison and exile from England at the age of fifteen, he is the ultimate survivor. When cornered he is a vicious killer as he travels through France and Italy with the Flemish mercenary brigade and fights with Cesare Borgia and then the French, as they try to regain Naples. He is captured and tortured by the victorious Spanish before being sold into slavery. Escaping to Florence, he finds furtive but life-changing love with Maddalena, the daughter of Lorenzo de Medici, who is twelve years older and locked in a miserable arranged marriage to the vile son of a pope. The lovers liaise in the threatened world of the Medici's finest Tuscan homes, assisted by Madam Valeria, herself an illegitimate Medici daughter and the owner of Rome's finest salon for gaming and courtesans.Cromwell matures fast into a respected merchant and envoy for the Frescobaldi Company in Venice. But he never knows if he can return as a free man to England. And two bitter enemies pursue him - Bartolomeo D'Alviano, a mercenary general, maimed by Cromwell in a battle for French control of Naples; and Angelo Lomellini, the fiendish Genoa gang leader, from whom Cromwell ruthlessly extracts a long-overdue Frescobaldi debt. Returning to England as Cremonello after seven years in exile, he has fathered Maddalena's son. But he must still evade his enemies and consider a tempting but treasonous offer by Florentine politician Machiavelli. He also now controls Valeria's momentous secret archive, which could change the religious and political landscape across the whole of Europe forever. This is the untold story of Cromwell's early life, with startling conclusions and unique insights on the dynamics between a turbulent England and a volatile Renaissance Italy."This novel is set during one of my favourite times in history. I love the espionage, intrigue and evil of the Medici. I love the excesses and the indulgences of the time. There is a wonderful duality of perversion and propriety that makes for fascinating tales. The author obviously shares my interest in the time and has a fantastic sense of the history." - Independent Critic and former Commissioning Editor
Much has been written about Charles I’s reign, about the brutal civil war into which his pursuit of unfettered power plunged the realm, and about the Commonwealth regime that followed his defeat and execution. His reign is one that shaped the future of the British monarch, and his legacy still remains with us today.After more than half a century of comparative neglect, The Prisoner King provides a new and much needed re-examination of the crucial period encompassing Charles I’s captivity after his surrender to the Scots at Newark in May 1646. Not only were the subsequent months before his trial a time when the human dimension of the king’s predicament assumed unparalleled intensity, they were also a critical watershed when the entire nation stood at the most fateful of crossroads.For Charles himself, as subterfuge, espionage and assassination rumours escalated on all fronts, escape attempts foundered, and tensions with his absent wife mounted agonisingly, the test was supreme. Yet, in a painful passage involving both stubborn impenitence and uncommon fortitude in the face of ‘barbarous usage’ by his captors, the ‘Man of Blood’ would ultimately come to merit his unique place in history as England’s ‘martyr king’.
An anthology of ethnographic or field accounts of crime and criminals, selected to give students unique perspectives on gang members, burglars, addicts, rapists, and white-collar offenders. These criminals discuss their motives, perceptions, decision-making strategies, and rationalizations for crime. This second edition contains seven new studies, adding more accounts of crimes committed by women, youthful car thieves, crack sales, and research that analyzes crime as work. Lacks a subject index. Cromwell is affiliated with Wichita State University. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Crimes & Criminals of 17th Century Britain by Daniel J. Codd Pdf
Think the world is bad today? Then take a true-crime trip back in time to 1600s England, where violence, robbery, and cold-blooded murder ran amuck. These days, criminals and evildoers are stopped, caught, and punished every day. But how did people deal with crimes before the police, computer records, and a consistent judicial system even existed? Here are the stories of some of the most heinous, shocking, and unbelievable transgressions of the law in seventeenth century England, raising questions such as . . . Which murderer committed an atrocity at an East End brothel in 1691? What superstitions lay behind the unfathomable slaughter of three innocent children at a remote farmhouse in County Durham in 1683? When was a parish constable murdered in cold blood by a party of men that allegedly included the illegitimate son of King Charles II? Where did deadly confrontations occur between supporters and opponents of King James II during the so-called Bloodless Revolution of 1688? These cases, and many more, are explored in depth, harkening back to a time of witch hunts, dueling, and political assassinations, when the punishment for killing one’s fellow man was either more barbaric than the crime itself, or corruptly lenient. Illustrated throughout and shedding a unique light on the era, Crimes & Criminals of 17th Century Britain is the first work of its kind to explore the monstrous murders that occurred at a time when the nation was repeatedly plunged into chaos.
This book presents students with recent and important research on criminal behavior. The articles in this anthology, all based on actual field studies, provide the reader with a realistic portrayal of what actual offenders say about crime and their participation in it. The offenders' voices, along with the researchers' analyses, offer students a real-life view of what, how, and why various criminals behave the way they do.
Our knowledge of crime is based on three types of sources: the criminal justice system, victims, and offenders. For technological and other reasons the criminal justice system produces an increasing stream of information on crime. The rise of the victimization survey has given the victims a much larger role in our study of crime. There is, however, no concomitant development regarding offenders. This is unfortunate because offenders are the experts when it comes to offending.In order to understand criminal behavior, we need their perspective. This is not always a straightforward process, however, and information from offenders is often unreliable. This book is about what we can do to maximise the validity of what offenders tell us about their offending. Renowned experts from various countries present their experiences and insights, with a clear focus on methodological issues of fieldwork among various types of offender populations. Each contribution deals with with a few central issues: How can offenders be motivated to participate in research? How can offenders be motivated to tell the truth on their offending? How can the information that offenders provide be checked and validated? What can we learn from offenders that cannot be accessed from other sources? With the aim of obtaining valid and reliable information, how, where and under which conditions should we observe offenders and talk to them?
The convict. 1847. The last of the fairies. 1848. Sir Theodore Broughton. 1848. Heidelberg. 1846. Beauchamp. 1847. The castle of Ehrenstein. 1847. Russell. 1847. Margaret Graham. 1847 by George Payne Rainsford James Pdf
Sweeping through 1500 years of history, Glastonbury tells the story of Christianity in England--from the first confrontations between druids and Christians to the dissolution of the monasteries under Henry VIII.
