Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson - Charles I's Puritan Nemisis

John Hutchinson played a pivotal role in the English Revolution - he signed the death warrant for King Charles I. And, for his pains he paid with his life, dying an ignominious death in prison four years after the Restoration. His wife Lucy, determined to restore his reputation, wrote this memoir as a defence against allegations that he was not a gentleman and in order to moderate her woe. An unequalled social document, a startling political analysis, and a moving tribute to a lost husband....