The Triptych for the Feast of Charles I: King and Martyr. Question Mark? 30 January 1649

 Triptych I: A Eulogy

 

“Let us talk of Regicide[1],

and the death of the Kind King”[2].

It is essentially problematic,

When the Church honours the Feast of the death of

Charles I, "King and Martyr"[3].

Blood.

Lots of blood.

Mostly other people’s blood.

English Civil War blood.

We call for the

Putney Debates[4]

of our day.

We name this problematic day.

We speak truth today.

Parliament’s Sovereignty

is challenged once again.

We have been here before.

In 1649.

Parliament’s Sovereignty

Is raped,

Daily,

Since we

"Took Back Control"[5].

 

Triptych II: Regicide.


Regicide lives.

It stalks the land.

The Kind King Truth is Dead.

Executed.

On the Flood Plains.

In the Market places.

And in the City Squares of England.

Lies wield their treacherous

Blood-stained Axe.

The Axe of the Great Lie.

The Lie that “dare not speak its name”[6].

Executed Truth.

 

Hear the Royal Proclamation:

The Kind King Truth is Dead.

Long Live King Falsehood.

 

Pause.


New Model Armies,

Rise.

We convene,

For our age,

The New Putney Debates.

All the painful questions,

Archbishops, Bishops, and Politicians

do not want to answer,

will be asked.



There are people,

in the public life of our country,

who,

if they die intestate of evidence of

 Repentance of the Sin of their Lies,

Should be denied a Christian Rite,

At their funeral[7].

 

Footnote No VII

(For Footnotes Matter)

It is suggested that at his burial at St George’s Chapel, Windsor, in the winter of 1649, King Charles I, despite his devotion, was denied a Christian Funeral Rite according to the Book of Common Prayer.

 

The Followers of The Great Lie

Must hear today the words of our Ancestor Oliver Cromwell:

“I beseech you,

In the bowels of Christ

Think it possible you may be mistaken?[8]

 

Footnote No VIII A

Oh no, not “The bowels of Christ”?

Yes! “The bowels of Christ”![i]

 

Furthermore

Footnote No IX[9]

(For Footnotes still Matter)

In the Holy Court

On the Great and Glorious Day,

Before the Bar of Heaven,

King’s Counsel willth rise,

With our Maternal Grandmother’s

Scofield Reference Bible,

Open at the Lesson set in the Lectionary for the day,

Resting on a gilded cushion

Of blue, crimson, and purple fabric,

Woven with King Solomoen’s Wisdom in

Fine fabric, and Cherubim[10].

In that Thin and Holy Place,

On that Great and Glorious Day,

Before that Holy Bar,

King’s Counsel will,

With integrity before the Bar of the Holy Word,

Denounce the

Leaders of The Great Lie,

And contest and challenge their Candidacy for Glory.

 

(Never cross a Poet who knows the literature of their Non-Conformist Ancestors…).

 

Triptych III: “Anointing” Question Mark?

There is only one Crown.

It sits on

Jesu’s Head.

 

The essentially problematic

Feast Day of Charles I, King, and Martyr, has an inheritance.

In this secular,

Multi-cultural,

Multi- faith country,

Is it appropriate on Saturday 6 May 2023,

In Westminster Abbey,

For the Archbishop of Canterbury

To anoint CR III at their Coronation[11]?

Footnote No XI

(For Footnotes always matter)

 

When the Government of the day will not publish the cost of the Coronation ceremonies, while at the same time refusing to give nurses and doctors a decent pay rise. Maybe the King should volunteer to pay some inheritance tax?

 

Charles I was a King.

If he was a Martyr,

And that is a question,

Then we ask the difficult questions of our day,

With tenacity, courage, and integrity,

Of our Archbishops,

Bishops,

And elected Politicians.

For once again,

We need to defend and reaffirm,

The Primacy of the principle of

Parliament’s Sovereignty.

 

Today we must speak of Regicide,

and of the Execution of the Kind King: Truth.

The King is dead: long live the King. Question Mark?



Copyright
© Lottie E. Allen

Sealed this day, the Coronation of Charles III

Saturday 6 May

In the year of our Lord Two Thousand and Twenty-Three.




[1] “Regicide”: to kill a King. Cronwell’s Parliament authorised the Execution of King Charles I in an act of Regicide.

[2] Lottie E. Allen, on the Feast of Charles I, King and Martyr, 30 January in the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand and Twenty-Three.

[3] Charles I, King of England, Scotland, and Ireland. 19 November 1600 to 30 January 1649. Executed.

[4] The Putney Debates: 28 October to 8 November 1647.

[5] A key “Leave” campaign slogan in the “Non legally binding Advisory” 2016 Referendum.

[6] “Two Loves” by Lord Alfred Douglas.

[7] It is suggested that at his burial at St George’s Chapel, Windsor, in the winter of 1649, King Charles I, despite his devotion, was denied a Christian Funeral Rite according to the Book of Common Prayer. See

https://www.stgeorges-windsor.org/the-funeral-of-charles-i/

 

[8] Oliver Cromwell, Letter to the Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland, 3 August 1650.

[9] In the Holy Court, On the Great and Glorious Day, Before the Bar of Heaven, King’s Counsel will rise, With our Maternal Grandmother’s Scofield Reference Bible, Open at the Lesson set in the Lectionary for the Day, Resting on a gilded cushion of blue, crimson, and purple fabric, Woven with King Solomon’s Wisdom in Fine fabric, and Cherubim. In that Thin and Holy Place, On that Great and Glorious Day, Before the Bar of Heaven, King’s Counsel will, with integrity before the Bar of the Holy Word, denounce the Leaders of The Great Lie, And contest and challenge their Candidacy for Glory. (Never cross a Poet who knows the literature of their `Non-Conformist Ancestors…).

[10] In Wisdom King Solomon “made the curtain of blue and crimson and purple fabric, and fine linen, and wove cherubim into it”. II Chronicles, Chapter Three, Verse Fourteen.

[11] When the Government of the day will not publish the cost of the Coronation ceremonies, while at the same time refusing to give nurses and doctors a decent pay rise. Maybe the King should volunteer to pay some inheritance tax?



 

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