The Love of the Lindseys

At the Battle of Edgehill in 1642, at the start of the Civil War, Lord Lindsey was mortally wounded, but his son, Lord Willoughby, allowed himself to be captured so he could be beside his dying father. Seven years later, Willoughby was one of the select band of mourners at the burial of the executed King Charles I.

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