Lord Leven
Family: Scottish royalists · Role: commander · First appears: Chapter 55
Life events
- Lord Leven sold Charles I to Parliament for two hundred thousand pounds.(Chapter55)
- With: Charles I
- “that, by an infamous treaty you have sold me for two hundred thousand pounds to Parliament.”
- Scottish leaders declared Charles I their prisoner after refusing to confront the English army.(Chapter55)
- With: Charles I
- “We have promised and we will keep our promise. Charles Stuart, you are our prisoner.”
Chapter 55
- enemies with Charles I “Charles Stuart, you are our prisoner.”
- with Cromwell (The passage accuses Lord Leven and Cromwell of coordinating the treaty to sell Charles I.) “‘It is this, sir,’ said the king, angrily, ‘that General Cromwell has reached Newcastle; that you knew it and I was not informed of it; that the enemy have left the town and are now closing the passages of the Tyne against us; that our sentinels have seen this movement and I have been left unacquainted with it; that, by an infamous treaty you have sold me for two hundred thousand pounds to Parliament.’”
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