George Joyce
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Lieutenant-Colonel George Joyce was an officer and Agitator in the Parliamentary New Model Army during the English Civil War.
Cornet George Joyce (Jacob Huysmans)
An 18th century illustration of Joyce's arrest of Charles I in 1647
Thomas Fairfax
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Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron was an English army officer and politician who commanded the New Model Army from 1645 to 1650 during the English Civil War. Because of his dark hair, he was
George Joyce
…rendezvous at the behest of the recently formed Army Council, Joyce seized King Charles I from Parliament's custody at Holdenby House and took him to Thomas Fairfax's headquarters on Triploe Heath (8 miles south of Cambridge), a move that weakened Parliament's position and strengthened the Army's. Before joining the…
Portrait by Robert Walker, 1649–1658
The Most Excellent Thomas Fairfax, Captin Generall of the Armyes etc, etching, 1640s. National Portrait Gallery, London
Gold medal depicting Thomas Fairfax in profile, 1645. National Portrait Gallery, London
Doublet worn by Fairfax at the Battle of Maidstone in 1648