Act of Oblivion: The Sunday Times Bestseller

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Harry Bosch and the Lincoln Lawyer team up to exonerate a woman who’s already served five years for killing her ex-husband. A masterclass in storytelling, so enthralling that if you'd disembowelled me whilst I was reading this book I doubt I'd have noticed! * Daily Express *

May 1660, Pardon and Oblivion, British History On-line House of Commons Journal Volume 8 (www.british-history.ac.uk) One of the people to benefit directly from the Act was John Milton, who was released from prison. [10] Overview of sections [ edit ]XIX. Writs of capias utiagatum may be directed against any person. The party outlawed may sue out a scire facias against the plaintiff. Bernadette Meyler’s Theaters of Pardoning 1 Open this footnote Close this footnote 1 Bernadette Meyler , Theaters of Pardoning (2019). … Open this footnote Close offers a profound and provocative meditation on the relationship between forgiveness and the state. In this comment, I follow her methodological and substantive lead by taking literary and legal approaches to a curious form of pardoning she discusses in her work—the “Act of Oblivion.” The Act of Oblivion operated as a super-pardon: It was “a form of general amnesty erasing the record of the underlying events rather than simply remitting punishment.” 2 Open this footnote Close this footnote 2 Id. at 29. … Open this footnote Close Pardon is to oblivion as forgiving is to forgetting.

July 1660 Proceedings of Regicides, British History On-line House of Commons Journal Volume 8 (www.british-history.ac.uk) August 1660 Bills passed, British History On-line House of Lords Journal Volume 11 (www.british-history.ac.uk)Based on real and fascinating history, this is Robert Harris's best since An Officer and a Spy * The Times * The Act of Oblivion may seem no more than a curiosity today. Congress has never passed such an Act, nor is it likely to do so. Yet as Meyler has shown in a piece titled Pardon, but Don’t Forget 26 Open this footnote Close this footnote 26 Meyler, supra note 23. … Open this footnote Close in the Take Care blog, the Anglo-American rejection of the Acts of Oblivion may itself illuminate contemporary legal life. Put this on your list of books to curl up with on a dreary winter's day. There is something deeply comforting about historical fiction, particularly one so rich in detail and intelligent in design. The slow burning plot weaves the thrill of the chase with a precise rendering of colonial America and royalist Britain.

As the German poet and philosopher Novalis remarked more than two centuries ago, novels arise out of the shortcomings of history. Harris sets out to plug the gaps in the record, and succeeds remarkably well. He’s writing fiction, but he treats the few available facts and the more plausible theories with respect, and skilfully extrapolates from them. The year is 1660. The Act of Oblivion has been passed. Charles II has been restored as King of England after a decade of puritan rule by Oliver Cromwell. In the midst of this political upheaval, the question of what to do with the 51 men who signed the death warrant of Charles I remains unanswered. Until the Act of Oblivion.He took a while to reply. By the time he spoke the men had gone inside. He said quietly, "They killed the King." Whalley is the only reflective character, confronting the possibility (in the memoir, though not to others) that perhaps God had not been on the side of the Parliamentarians. Goffe and Nayler remain rigid in their views to the end, starkly representing the opposing sides.