Once I was a clever boy learning the arts of Oxford... is a quotation from the verses written by Bishop Richard Fleming (c.1385-1431) for his tomb in Lincoln Cathedral. Fleming, the founder of Lincoln College in Oxford, is the subject of my research for a D. Phil., and, like me, a son of the West Riding. I have remarked in the past that I have a deeply meaningful on-going relationship with a dead fifteenth century bishop... it was Fleming who, in effect, enabled me to come to Oxford and to learn its arts, and for that I am immensely grateful.


Friday, 30 January 2026

Remembering King Charles the Martyr


Today is the 376th anniversary of the regicide of King Charles I in 1649.   


King Charles I during his trial in 1649
A portrait by Edward Bower circa 1650
Image: Baldwin.co.uk

The Society of King Charles the Martyr and the Royal Martyr Church Union, many High Anglican and Anglo-Catholic churches and foundations, as well as Civil War re-enactment groups will be holding services and commemoration ceremonies today and over this coming weekend.

Looking online I found on the Project Canterbury website the text of a booklet about the Royal Martyr and his cult published by SKCM, which appears to date from the 1930s. It can be read here


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