Life in a Revolutionary Decade in Britain (1649-1660)
Gresham College Lectures
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Mercurious Politicus by Hammon Lestrange
Mercurious Politicus was on sale in London from the Mercury Cellars baskets every Thursday. Among the many who received the weekly news packet were the Lestrange family of Hun Stanton in North Norfolk. Sir Hammon Lestrange had fought briefly for the king at the very beginning of the Civil War before being defeated at the siege of Kingslin in 1643. By the mid-1650s he and his wife had become reconciled to the new regime. The republic lived on in name but it was now to be a mixed constitution, a protectorate in which the new lord protector Oliver Cromwell would share sovereignty with Parliament.
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