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Strip Cartoon Tells Story of Monmouth Rebellion and its Guildford Links
Published on: 19 Sep, 2024
Updated on: 19 Sep, 2024
The Monmouth Rebellion is a significant part of England’s 17th century history, with Guildford’s Abbot’s Hospital and an early form of the Queen’s Regiment of Surrey playing their part.
Here is the story in brief, in the form of an exquisitely drawn strip cartoon by William Butler.
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The Dragon thanks William Butler for this illustrated story.
You can read more about it in detail here on the Battlefields Hub website.
And click here for more about the Duke of Monmouth’s stay at Abbot’s Hospital on its own website.
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David Roberts
September 20, 2024 at 12:44 pm
This is an attractive way to covey local history to a generation whose education in the humanities is being constantly downgraded in favour of the dreaded STEM subjects.
Perhaps Mr Butler would like to give us a cartoon strip about the uproarious visit of Czar Peter the Great to Godalming, just a few years after Sedgemoor (the last pitched battle on English soil).
Harry Eve
September 20, 2024 at 9:17 pm
Sedgemoor was not the last pitched battle on English soil – although it depends on how you define “pitched”. The Battle of Bossenden Wood (1838) deserves that title although I am somewhat biased as it is part of my family history.
David Roberts
September 21, 2024 at 4:45 pm
I stand corrected – sort of.
I’d never heard of Bossenden Wood, which was surely more a civilian riot put down by force (like the “Battle” of Saltley Gate, miners’ strike, in 1972) than a real battle between two armies like Sedgemoor.
Which side were the Eves on?
Harry Eve
September 22, 2024 at 10:01 pm
There were a number of related Eve families in the area at that time. As far as I am aware they were all labourers and mostly on the land so suffering the changes taking place at the time. Samuel Eve, age approximately 19 and recently married, took part. Samuel was discharged at the initial hearings. I will leave the precise definition of “Battle” to historians but that is how it was reported including in books on the topic.