Since the days of the Samuel Rawson Gardiner, history has portrayed Charles I of England as a man lacking in any visible virtue, be them kingly or otherwise. Hill named him a ‘petulant and obstinate king’. Morrill called him ‘incompetent’, Russell, ‘uncompromising’. Indeed, the historiography of Charles I; Whigs, Marxists, Revisionists and Post-Revisionists has been… Continue reading