“In return for financial support will advocate admission of Jews to England; This however impossible while Charles living. Charles cannot be executed without trial on adequate grounds for which do not presently exist. Therefore advise that Charles be assassinated, but will have nothing to do with arrangements for procuring an assassin, though willing to help in his escape. [King Charles I was in prison at the time].” HelpingSupportImpossibleWillingReturnKingsEnglandPrisonFinancialJewTrialsArrangementsAdequateAdviseAssassinsAdmissionFinancial SupportCharles I Author:Oliver Cromwell
“If I were not a king, I would be a university man; and if it were so that I must be a prisoner, if I might have my wish, I would desire to have no other prison than that library [the Bodleian].” IfsMenMightWould BeDesireWishKingsPrisonLibraryUniversityPrisonerMy Wish Author:King James I
“I am a king's daughter, And if I cared to care, The moon that has no mistress Would flutter in my hair. No one dares to cherish What I choose to crave. Never have I hungered, For that I did not have I am a kings daughter, And I grow old within The prison of my person, The shackles of my skin. And I would run away And beg from door to door, Just to see your shadow Once, and never more.” IfsPersonsCareRunningGrowsDoorsHairKingsMoonDaughterShadowSkinsPrisonDareCherishRunning AwayCraveMistressShackles Author:Peter S. Beagle
“The prison keeper choose an inopportune time to look around the doorway into the cell. He and the king locked gazes, and the king's eyes narrowed while the prison keeper's widened.” LooksEyeKingsPrisonCellsLockedDoorwaysKeepers Author:Megan Whalen Turner