Abstract
Amos Tubb shows how the execution of Charles impacted royalist consensus as it was expressed in the royalist newsbooks. Immediately after his death, newsbook editors celebrated his heroic behavior on the scaffold unanimously, but the Leveller uprising soon exposed fissures in this consensus. Newsbook editors began counterfeiting each other’s publications, taking different views of events and also attacking one another by any available means. Parliament contributed to this crisis by licensing its own newsbooks to publicize the opposite views and by sending its censors after the royalist publications. CJ, :; Nelson and Seccombe, British Newspapers and Periodicals, . Sean Kelsey has recently argued that the Republic was actually fairly effective in promoting itself to its people; Inventing a Republic: The Political Culture of the English Commonwealth, – (Stanford, Calif., ), passim. Underdown, Royalist Conspiracy, . This content downloaded from 207.46.13.120 on Wed, 14 Sep 2016 04:47:26 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms
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