The Manuscript Journals of the Trial of Charles I: New Evidence on their Provenance and Purpose

TY - JOUR

T1 - The Manuscript Journals of the Trial of Charles I

T2 - New Evidence on their Provenance and Purpose

AU - Vallance, Ted

PY - 2021/5/20

Y1 - 2021/5/20

N2 - Historians of the trial of Charles I will be familiar with the two copies of the manuscript journals kept in the National Archives, Kew and the UK Parliamentary Archives. Besides these manuscripts, two further copies of the trial proceedings are held in the Beinecke Library, Yale and in the British Library. The article compares these versions to propose a tentative document history of the journals, suggesting that these manuscripts were produced for different purposes: what began as the basis for an authoritative public account of the trial later became a text intended for a more select legal audience.

AB - Historians of the trial of Charles I will be familiar with the two copies of the manuscript journals kept in the National Archives, Kew and the UK Parliamentary Archives. Besides these manuscripts, two further copies of the trial proceedings are held in the Beinecke Library, Yale and in the British Library. The article compares these versions to propose a tentative document history of the journals, suggesting that these manuscripts were produced for different purposes: what began as the basis for an authoritative public account of the trial later became a text intended for a more select legal audience.

KW - Charles I

KW - regicide

KW - trial

KW - civil war

U2 - 10.1093/hisres/htab012

DO - 10.1093/hisres/htab012

M3 - Article

SN - 1468-2281

VL - 94

SP - 303

EP - 322

JO - Historical Research

JF - Historical Research

IS - 264

ER -