tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4505650937249085191.post1593978631757024196..comments2023-09-09T00:11:53.823-07:00Comments on Loyalty Binds Me: 15th July 1685 - The Execution of James, Duke of MonmouthUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4505650937249085191.post-2525182100857331452014-05-09T02:45:30.967-07:002014-05-09T02:45:30.967-07:00What a truly terrible and unjust way to die. He wa...What a truly terrible and unjust way to die. He was a wonderful soul and may God grant him eternal peace in Heaven.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05894732372218700583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4505650937249085191.post-41047571515743626432013-04-30T06:06:43.575-07:002013-04-30T06:06:43.575-07:00As I will this year on the aniversary. As a descen...As I will this year on the aniversary. As a descendant of a man who was a monmouth rebel at Sedgemoor, I think it is wrong to condem him as an easily led fool as the evidence seems to contrdict this. He was well known to be hard to push around and his poor education bothered him barely 2 years of schooling. He took private lessons for most of the rest of his life, hardly the action of a fool. He was complex and had what would now be called "issues" due to his early life of poverty, illegitemacy, several kidnaps and never knowing for sure if he was illegitimate or not. Would he have been a good king?, well he couldn't have been worse than James II and he was certianly much more intelligent than George. Charles II loved him as his favourite son and Charles despised fools.<br />F.N.B.GAndyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13347519412940287989noreply@blogger.com