Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 Charles I, King of England, was beheaded for Treason. Just thought you might want to know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 (edited) Ahhh yes, the Cromwell years. Later, after Cromwell died... Oliver Cromwell was posthumously convicted of treason, and his body was disinterred from its tomb in Westminster Abbey and hanged from the gallows at Tyburn. Edited January 30, 2017 by Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted January 31, 2017 Author Share Posted January 31, 2017 Seems like those dudes were all loosing their heads over some law or another, or hanging around with the wrong crowd. A few even got stuck with the wrong end of somebody's sword. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 They loved to draw and quarter Scotsmen too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted January 31, 2017 Author Share Posted January 31, 2017 Read once that the punishment for piracy was to put a feller in a iron cage and hang it from a post in the town square. Let the poor dude starve to death without food water and exposed to the elements. Tough crowd, those Royals. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loophole LaRue, SASS #51438 Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 Ahhh yes, the Cromwell years. Later, after Cromwell died... Oliver Cromwell was posthumously convicted of treason, and his body was disinterred from its tomb in Westminster Abbey and hanged from the gallows at Tyburn. Now THERE is an unforgiving political opponent!! These modern day pols who complain about witch-hunts and Senate investigations...they are rank amateurs! LL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619 Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 As John Harrington said, "Treason doth never prosper; what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it treason". Charles I was mainly guilty of losing the English Civil War. But then, he started it.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seamus McGillicuddy Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 My old English teacher, Mrs. Smith, so loved the English but loved democracy too. I recall how she mused "Oh, but to kill a King!" Seamus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfgang, SASS #53480 Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 I'd forgot all about that . . . . . . . nice of ya to remind us . . . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birdgun Quail, SASS #63663 Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 Charles I, King of England, was beheaded for Treason. Just thought you might want to know. Did he die? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted January 31, 2017 Author Share Posted January 31, 2017 At some point, he was noticed to be inactive. One does not function well without a head, not to mention he was a King. A King is the head guy, but I don't think it matters when the King loses his own head. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michigan Slim Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 So it was pretty easy to get ahead in those days..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted January 31, 2017 Author Share Posted January 31, 2017 Just depends on where you were headed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellowhouse Sam # 25171 Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 Kings were a cut above. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted February 1, 2017 Author Share Posted February 1, 2017 (edited) It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. But it was a Dickens of a time. Edited February 1, 2017 by Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted February 1, 2017 Share Posted February 1, 2017 140 years later., the French Revolution. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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