Resultado de búsqueda
The chapter explores the legal, political, and literary contexts of the possible torture of John Felton, the 1628 assassin of the royal favourite George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham.
ABSTRACT. This article analyses the motivation behind John Felton's assassination of the duke of Buckingham in August 1628. Itfocuses attention on hisfamily's tortured relationship with the regime, and it highlights Felton's militay service in Spain, Ireland, and France. Wounded in the disastrous withdrawal
The Buckingham Assassination (1628) < Previous Page Next Page > view as PDF. On 23 August 1628, in the Greyhound Inn on Portsmouth High Street, a disgruntled, melancholic infantry lieutenant, badly wounded during the 1627 expedition to the Ile de Ré, twice passed over for promotion to captain, and owed over eighty pounds in back pay, plunged a ...
Abstract. This article analyses the motivation behind John Felton's assassination of the duke of Buckingham in August 1628. It focuses attention on his family's tortured relationship with the regime, and it highlights Felton's military service in Spain, Ireland, and France.
Feltons Epitaph - The Buckingham Assassination (1628) Navigate By. Pii15 Heere uninterr’d suspends (though not to save. < Previous Page Next Page > view as PDF. Notes. After Felton’s execution on 29 November 1628, the King ordered the assassin’s body to be hung in chains outside Portsmouth.
He was John Felton, the forty-year-old scion of a minor gentry family from Suffolk that had fallen on hard times. Angry that Buckingham had ignored his case for promotion, and increasingly desperate as he became ever more short of cash, Felton had come across a copy of the 1628 Parliament’s Remonstrance against the Duke
His name was John Felton.1 Historians have long agreed that Buckingham's assassination marked a watershed in early Stuart political history. Felton's knife removed at one stroke the most important and controversial political actor of the. 1620S, and the structure and dynamics of court politics, indeed of.
