Life in a Revolutionary Decade in Britain (1649-1660)
Gresham College Lectures
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March-Mant Needham's Satirical Satire of Charles I's Trial
March-Mant Needham was a satirist and critic of the new republic. He repeatedly denounced the rump parliament in print. After failing to negotiate his release, he decided to take matters into his own hands. March went Needham was captured in 1649, June, and clapped in Newgate prison. The leaders of the Commonwealth must have hesitated to deal with someone who had so relentlessly insulted and excoriated them.
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