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THE WHIGS UNMASK?D IBD

SPRADABACH PUBLISHING
05 / 2023
9781909606371
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Sinopsis

The CalvesâÇÖ Head Club was a secret association of anti-monarchical incendiaries who met each 30 January to mock Charles I and celebrate the anniversary of his execution. They met at night and their alcohol-fuelled shenaningans included dining on codâÇÖs, boarâÇÖs, and calvesâÇÖ heads, and performances symbolising the KingâÇÖs beheading. Though a piece of Tory propaganda, Edward WardâÇÖs Secret History of the CalvesâÇÖ-Head Club remains the main source of information relating to this scandalous society. Via documents and testimonies, he shines a light on their shady gatherings, and conducts an exegesis of their songs, which prove replete with insolence, arrogance, and mean-spirited revanchism. Who did they think they were? seems to be the underlying question. WardâÇÖs popular text was published during the reign of Queen Anne, and enjoyed numerous reprints. This one, based on the 8th edition, comes with an appendix and other enlargments, including, as the author saw it, exposés, in verse and in prose, of the character of Presbyterians and modern Whigs, a vindication of Charles, and a defense of his character. The author has the cheek to nominate his targets his patrons, ostensibly posing as a âÇÖfriendâÇÖ desiring to âÇÖhelpâÇÖ them by encouraging them to desist and thereby avoid prison or the chopping block.ááá

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