Painting of Charles II's flight towards Jamestown, from Amsterdam, dated on 1652.
Preamble
Journey Into The West
1652
Charles I's rolling head on the White Hall had spoken something else, for the English monarchy. After a long-running rule of the English kingdom over the Scots, Welsh, Cornish and the Irish, people began to spoke otherwise, about on how the isles should be under a yolk of a monarchy, or not. Then came Oliver Cromwell, the man who changed everything, for everyone. Cromwell brought a massive winds of change, to the point where the Scotsmen did not use the occasion to break free. To the point where the Irish didnt use the occasion to break free. It was something else. At this point, a unified British identity could be easily seen, as this matter is not on racial points, but political, and also, religious. Cromwell could galvanize not only the army, but also the people, into speaking against the monarchs. Battles after battles, House of Stuart are continously put over the edge, with their apparent defeat, and exile looming. Finally, as the Long Parliament is eventually held, Charles II must made his flight to Amsterdam, as the Netherlands could be the last refuge, before a future restoration could be arranged.
But then, is the restoration is a viable, and possible option? Will the future generation of Stuarts-or even other houses that would lay claim over the British Isles could put a crown, and a throne over London? The rolling head of Charles I once again became a grim reminder, on how nobility in the British Isles could easily already reaching its nadir. Charles II, after his "Coronation", looked otherwise. If a return is not possible, things might be goes other way, if he galvanized the support, and also the rather strange fervors and loyalty that he get from the colonies. The colonies, per-se, is not a land that should be used as a refuge, but rather, as a expansion of the state. But in desperate times, desperate measures should have be taken. Where, the new British Empire should be? Or even, maybe, is the "British" identity is worth to be carried around, to the new world? With the possibilities of returning back to the British Isles being inevitably out of the question, the new world holds something else, for Charles II.
Within in the months of June 1652, any loyalists who spoke about a return to the British Isle is silenced, by Charles II's own order. They shalt not speak about the isles, and what the Isles could bring for them. For them, those who ruled and lived within the Isles are not true Englishmen, and shall not forever be spoken or considered as a kin. For now, they are the pilgrims to the new world, fighting for a new destiny, with Jamestown as their main destination.
They Seek Salvation In Jamestown
