Best-Shaw baronets
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The Shaw, later Best-Shaw Baronetcy, of Eltham in the County of Kent, is a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 15 April 1665 for Sir John Shaw, Commissioner of the Customs 1660–62 an
John Shaw, 4th Bt (1728–1799), of Eltham Lodge (Arthur Devis, 1757)
English Civil War
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The English Civil War or Great Rebellion was a series of civil wars and political machinations between Royalists and Parliamentarians in the Kingdom of England from 1642 to 1651. Part of the wider 163
The Battle of Naseby, 14 June 1645, a Parliamentarian victory considered to be the turning point of the English Civil War
Charles I believed in the divine right of kings; painting by Van Dyck
Henrietta Maria, painted by Peter Lely, 1660
A sitting of the Long Parliament, 1640