A COFFIN FOR KING CHARLES by C. V. Wedgewood. 307 pages. Macm///an. $5.95.
Since William the Conqueror's day, murder most foul has taken the lives of some half-dozen English kings. But priest and poet always agreed that heaven trembled at such impious acts, for even the most pitiless tyrant ruled by divine right. Oliver Cromwell changed all that. He had King Charles I slain in broad daylight, and explained that God willed it so; he made regicide and revolution fashionable.
Men of Stone. Other leaders in history have felt that they were doing God's...
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