Thinking about Allegiance in the English Civil War

Genre, authorship and authenticity in the petitions of Civil War veterans and widows from north Wales and the Marches

“…In determining political worthiness, individuals were called upon to describe ineffable qualities of loyalty and allegiance. 79 What did it mean, for example, for a petitioner to say that he served King Charles I 'with all the eagernes of his seale & fidelity'? 80 How could such qualities be measured or authenticated?…”

Commemoration and Oblivion in Royalist Print Culture, 1658-1667

“…Furthermore, during this period and into the early years of the Restoration, the allegiance of different groups of royalists, whether Protestant or Catholic, English or Scottish, "operated strategically within a realm of shifting understandings of allegiance itself". 44 Thus, the royalist print sources included in this study should not be viewed as representative of a single strand of royalism in the early Restoration years, but rather should be understood as representing various approaches to royalist support found in popular print.…”

Supplicants and Guardians: the petitions of Royalist widows during the Civil Wars and Interregnum, 1642–1660

“…4 This paper seeks to redress that by specifically examining the narratives of widows and analysing the ways in which they framed and fashioned themselves through the medium of the petition in order to defend their lands on behalf of themselves and their children. These women participated in the struggles of the wartime home front by skilfully engaging with a political process that had been imposed upon them by the events of the period.…”