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COMMONWEALTH AND RESTORATION.
On the 30th of January, 1649, before the palace of Whitehall, Charles the First of England was beheaded.

In Virginia the event fell with a shock.

Even those within the colony who were Cromwell's men rather than Charles's men seem to have recoiled from this act.

Presently, too, came fleeing royalists from overseas, to add their passionate voices to those of the royalists in Virginia.