Charles I’s Killers in America

Over the last decade, the ways in which the English Revolution was remembered and commemorated have become an increasingly fruitful and fashionable field of scholarship. Focus has ranged from the immediate aftermath, through the generations that followed, right up to the twentieth century. This volume by Matthew Jenkinson applies this approach to North American representations of the three regicides in exile in New England: Edward Whalley, William Goffe and, to a lesser extent, John Dixwell. The book is pitched at a wider readership beyond academia and university libraries, with a pleasingly accessible style and price for a hardback monograph. The book is divided into two distinct parts. Part I sets out the little that is known of their post-Restoration colonial lives, which turn out to be largely unremarkable. Despite their initial public welcome in Boston, after a bounty of £100 was placed on their heads Whalley and Goffe understandably kept

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