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DescriptionIn the 1660s, three fugitives from justice came to New England toescape being drawn and quartered in London. They had been among the 59judges in the trial of England's King Charles the First who found himguilty of betraying his own people and sentenced him to death bybeheading. For the next 11 years, England was governed by men trying tocreate a different kind of government, one led not by a monarch withdivine rights, but by the people. Their ideas helped the foundingfathers of the United States, a century later, come up with our Bill ofRights. In 1660, the king's son, Charles the Second, was restored to thethrone and began avenging his father. One of the three regicides whofled to North America was John Dixwell, my seven greats grandfather. Mybook tells the story of how being given Dixwell as a middle name andthen given his key to Dover Castle (where he was governor of thatmilitary fortification) led me to spend decades digging up everypossible scrap of information about his life and his decision to judge aking. The book details my discoveries in New England, England, and myfamily tree, where I figured out not only who had the key in each of theeight generations that preceded mine, but also how each key keeperlikely felt about the man who consigned a king to death. Sarah DixwellBrown taught writing at Stanford University, Santa Clara University,Mount Holyoke College and the Commonwealth Honors College at theUniversity of Massachusetts, Amherst. She has published numerouspersonal essays in national and local publications. This is her firstbook. It was prompted by her receiving a family heirloom, a key to DoverCastle that once belonged to her direct ancestor, John Dixwell, aregicide of Charles I who escaped to New England in the 1660s. She livesin Western Massachusetts.
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