Anthony Matthews

In the Name of the Crown Anthony Matthews

King Charles the first of England has lost control of the nation and the colonies across the ocean, and the arguments descend into two civil wars. The King loses both and the Puritan faction see no end to the issues. They decide to put the King on trial and have him executed. Baron John Belasyse, a hardened civil war commander and Lord of England, promises will never give up the pursuit of the men that signed the King's death warrant. The Republic will try to hunt him down as a royalist. He works to pull down the republic and restore the monarchy. He succeeds and moves to apprehend all those who signed the King's death warrant. Two of the most senior republicans, Major Generals Whalley and Goffe flee to Massachusetts and work to declare Independence from England. The new King, Charles the second, will order Belasyse across the ocean to kill them. He is teamed up with an unscrupulous turncoat and slave dealer, the hunt will lead them across the early settlements and a final confrontation, where Belasyse has a battle with his conscience. Set against the early history of the United States this gripping story of revenge is based on documented facts and everyone and place mentioned is real.