Elham Parish Library

In an earlier post this year I recorded a variant issue of an English Civil War news pamphlet which had been updated as it went through the press to include a newly received piece of news, filling an empty space on the final page (see A stop-press news item in 1642). A similar example has…

The new year in 1642 saw an escalation of the friction between King Charles I and his Parliament. A ‘Grand Remonstrance’ had been drafted by M.P. John Pym and his colleagues, which detailed Charles I’s abuses, both real and imagined, since Charles’s accession in 1625. On 4 January 1642 the King entered the Commons chamber…