Anna Keay on the Restless Republic (Britain after the death of Charles I)
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The Trial of Lady Fairfax
There's one woman at the trial who is is it lady Fairfax do we think she was really there and that she really spoke up against itYeah so this is this famous episode when during the course of the trial of Charles. The first one of the first name on the list of those who were to sit in judgment on him was Thomas Fairfax he'd been the sort of founding general of the New Muglami head of the parliamentarian army. He had not turned out because he was very uncomfortable about the whole business of building Charles the first on trial but up in the gallery it's I mean they're good contemporary accounts for this so we have no reason to doubt it his wife was among the
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