The Cavaliers Lose Another One

King Charles' refusal to compromise over complex religious and political situations led to civil war, his own execution and the abolition of the Monarchy.
"Indeed I could hold my peace very well, if I did not think that holding my peace would make some men think that I did submit to the guilt as well as to the punishment. But I think it is my duty to God first and to my country for to clear myself both as an honest man and a good King, and a good Christian."--Charles I, King and martyr, from the scaffold

And of Cromwell?: He thought secracy a virtue, and dissimulation no vice, and simmulation, that is in plain English, a lie, or perfiderousness to be tolerable fault in case of necessity. ~ Richard Baxter in Reliquiae Baxterianae

So Mote It Be.