Abstract
AbstractMarchamontNedham was one of the most significantEnglish journalists of the seventeenth century. During the Interregnum, his newspaperMercuriusPoliticusroutinely printed stories of exiled royalists and their leaderCharlesStuart. Although the topic of royalists was consistent throughout the 1650s, the royal image inPoliticuswas not. In the early 1650s,Nedham describedCharlesStuart as a tyrant and enemy of freedom, while after 1651, the exiled king appeared as a failed monarch.Nedham's reporting of royalists was independent of government influence, and he himself elected to change his representation of royalists. It was the shifting political situation that convinced him to alter his descriptions ofCharlesStuart and his followers.
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