Early Modern Egham

Egham Museum is delighted to be working with Charlotte Young, PhD candidate at Royal Holloway University of London (RHUL).  The title of Charlotte’s thesis is ‘The gentry are sequestred all’: An investigation into the implementation, impact and ramifications of sequestration during the Civil War, Interregnum and Commonwealth periods, c1645-1660.

Charlotte’s research is an exploration of sequestration – the process by which land, money and goods were confiscated from delinquent families during the English Civil War, Interregnum and Commonwealth periods. This tactic was primarily utilised by the Parliamentarians as a method of reducing the revenue available for Charles I to draw upon, and simultaneously finance their own military campaign, but the Royalists also launched their own sequestrati on policy in the mid-1640s, albeit on a smaller scale. This topic has been largely overlooked by scholars and it has never been the subject of any in-depth analysis, which has led to striking misconceptions about its origins, administration and efficiency.  Read more about sequestration in Charlotte’s paper presented at the British History in the 17th Century seminar group at the Institute of Historical Research in June 2016, titled: ‘His Lands as well as Goods / Sequestred ought to be’: The introduction of sequestration, 1642-3′.

Over the next couple of months, Egham Museum will be publishing 6 articles about the Early Modern period, researched and written by Charlotte on the following topics:

• The Survey of Egham Manor
• The Cruel Murder of a Young Maiden
• Prince Rupert in Runnymede
• Egham Races
• The Plague Comes to Egham
• Crime and Highway Robbery in Egham

Keep an eye out for Charlotte’s articles, coming soon!