Killers of the King Quotes

“Some were Levellers, an egalitarian movement that flowered briefly in the late 1640s. Strikingly modern in their aims, the Levellers wanted religious tolerance, manhood suffrage (the vote for all men), regular and accountable parliaments, and popular sovereignty, whereby those in power placed the public good ahead of their self-interest. Charles’s example of kingship, insisting on privileges, assumptions and abuses rooted in the Middle Ages, was a lightning rod for their hatred.”
― Charles Spencer, Killers of the King: The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I

“The four men had been allowed visits by their family and close friends the previous Sunday – an intolerably sad time, alleviated slightly by the condemned men’s determination to raise the spirits of those they were leaving behind. Jones took one of Scroope’s distraught daughters by the hand, and said, ‘You are weeping for your father, but suppose your father were tomorrow to be King of France, and you to tarry a while behind, would you weep? Why, he is going to reign with the King of Kings in eternal glory.”
― Charles Spencer, Killers of the King: The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I

“Now it carried the quiet hopes of many who were eager to create a refuge from religious intolerance in England.”
― Charles Spencer, Killers of the King: The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I

“in a superstitious age, battle was seen as an ordeal in which the righteous could expect to triumph.”
― Charles Spencer, Killers of the King: The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I