The hunt is on for the killers of a King.Or those who might have contributed to the trial and execution of Charles The First. With his son now upon the throne, and a pretty wide spread and generous, by this eras standard, amnesty for those who were not directly involved. those who seek to curry favour find increasingly tenous links to destroy others to enhance themselves. The story begins at the height of summer 1660, moving forward into the longer colder season which mirrors the darkening political situation in the England of Charles the Second.Oliver Cromwell and his New Model Army had changed the course of their homelands history when they demonstrated to the world that even God's own annointed was but a man, when they chopped off his head.Showing the world what may occur when our leaders disapoint the people and I use the word "disapoint" in the broadest sense of the word. You really have to be very disapointed to seperate ones head from ones body, pauper or ruler.Charles never doubted for a second, not even during his most perilous moments during the last hours of his life, in the divine right of kings, that he had been born to rule,despite the mordern minds inability to empathise with such thinking or grandiose self-consideration.In the modern conceit it is not that God is dead, to the fragmented progressive mind he never existed. And in that God shaped hole in our lives why not worship the self? Trying to decide the right or wrong of that is like wondering why water feels wet.
Er, meanwhile, back in The Winter List; there is a concerted effort to track down and punish anyone connected with the execution of The King, no matter how tenous that link might be.It is a desire for revenge that stretches across the world and many, many rocks are overturned in the search for those suspected guilty of contributing to the killing of a king. Even death will not prevent revenge as Cromwell was himself dug up and his cadaver punished for that which he sinned against in life. Many others had been arrested, tried and butchered for their percieved guilt.And what a bloody state of butchery it was. Cromwell had described Charles The First as "that man of blood"citing his entitled, literally, indifference to his people's suffering during the Civil War as one of the Kings main crimes. Now a second Charles sat upon the throne of England and surrounded himself with those who jostled for favour, who furiously virtue signalled by overtly condemning anyone suitable foe blame, sociably profiting by pointing fingers.
The killing of the king had the most prfound affect on English history and permeated out into the wider world and iys history. Following the bloodiest civil war in tyhat same history is it any wonder it had such a seismic impact on those who had to live through such troubled time. The Middle Eaqrth of English history was changed forever, birthed in blood, sweat and tears. Such a birthing had the most violent and life changing contractions.
Such a birthing should never be forgot.
