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"Patriot Royalism: The Stuart Monarchy in American Political Thought, 1769-75"

ONE of the more ironic moments in the decade-long conflict between Great Britain and its American colonies occurred on January 26, 1775. In the midst of an acrimonious debate over the wisdom of the Coercive Acts, the House of Commons paused to consider a very different question: whether to instruct its chaplain to preach a sermon on the occasion of “King Charles’s Martyrdom on the 30th of January.” Proponents of the motion argued that they were simply abiding by the terms of an act of Parliament, which required such an observance. They pointedly declined to offer a defense of the observance itself. As for the eighty-three members of Parliament who voted against the motion, their sentiments seem to have been perfectly captured by the remarks of the radical whig John Wilkes, Lord Mayor of London and MP for Middlesex: