1. The English Exeption

2. Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, title page (1651). Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)

3. Queen Elizabeth in Parliament. Frontispiece to Simonds D’Ewes, Journals of All the Parliaments during the Reign of Queen Elizabeth (1682).

4. Charles (in the dock with his back to the viewer) facing the High Court of Justice, 1649. From A True Copy of the Journal of the High Court of Justice for the Tryal of K Charles I, 1684. Charles I (1600-1649), ruled 1625-30 January 1649. Portrait from the studio of Anthony van Dyck, 1636. The Royal Collection, Windsor Castle. James VI and I (1566-1625), ruled Scotland from 1567 and England and Ireland from 1603. Portrait after John de Critz, ca 1606. National Portrait Gallery, London.

5. Oliver Cromwell (1599- 1658), Lord Protector 1653-1658. Portrait by Samuel Cooper, 1656. National Portrait Gallery, London. Woodcut from the title page of A dialogue, or, Rather a parley betweene Prince Ruperts dogge whose name is Puddle, and Tobies dog whose name is Pepper, &c, by John Taylor, 1643.

6. King William III and Queen Mary II. Engraving by R White, ca 1700. Private collection. The Declaration of Rights, 1689.

7. Lady Arbella Stuart (1575- 1615). Portrait by Robert Peake the Elder, 1605. Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh. Beatrice Walker as the Duchess and Vincent Enderby as Ferdinand in a production of John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi directed by Owen Horsley at the Southwark Playhouse, London, in 2013.