Mrs. Lucy Hutchinson (1620–1681) was an English biographer. Events September 6 - English emigrants on the Mayflower depart from Plymouth, England for the future New England and arrive at the end of the year. ... Events March 4 - Charles II of England grants a land charter to William Penn for the area that will later become Pennsylvania. ... Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location within the British Isles Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area – Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population – Total (mid-2004) – Total (2001 Census) – Density Ranked 1st UK...

The daughter of Sir Allen Apsley, Lieutenant of the Tower of London and Lady Lucy St. John, she married on July 3rd 1638 in St. Andrew Holborn,London England to Colonel John Hutchinson, one of those who signed the death-warrant of King Charles I of England, but who afterwards protested against the assumption of supreme power by Oliver Cromwell. She has a place in literature for her biography of her husband Memoirs Of The Life Of Colonel Hutchinson (first pub 1664). In the book she records that he had many notable victories in that conflict, including his victory at Shelford Manor. In this battle he defeated his kin Colonel Philip Stanhope. Colonel Stanhope was the fifth son of the Ist Earl of Chesterfield. Colonel Stanhope was killed in the battle on Oct. 27, 1645. Lucy writes of this in the book, she may have even seen the battle. As Owthorpe was only a few miles away from the battle site. After the English Civil War he retired to his estate of Owthorpe. With the restoration he was arrested but not tried of the regicide of King Charles I for which he was imprisoned in Sandown castle Kent, England. Lucy went before the House of Lords to gain his release, but to no avail. Sir Allen Apsley (1582-1630) was created 1616 Lord-Lieutenant of the Tower of London, by King James I of England. ... For the film with this title, see Tower of London (1939 film) The Tower of London, seen from the river, with a view of the water gate called Traitors Gate. ... Events March 29 - Swedish colonists establish first settlement in Delaware, called New Sweden. ... Colonel John Hutchinson (1616 - 1664) was one of the Puritan leaders, and a prominent actor in the Puritan revolt, to the extent of signing the death-warrant of the king, but broke partnership as a republican with Cromwell when he assumed sovereign power, and sullenly refused to be reconciled to... Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649) was King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649. ... Unfinished portrait miniature of Oliver Cromwell by Samuel Cooper, 1657. ... Sir Thomas Malory wrote the most famous fictional biography of the Middle Ages with Le Morte dArthur about the life of King Arthur. ... Philip Stanhope was colonel of the Shelford Manor Royalist forces in the English Civil War. ... The term English Civil War (or Wars) refers to the series of armed conflicts and political machinations which took place between English Parliamentarians and Royalists from 1642 until 1651. ... King Charles II The English Restoration or simply Restoration was an episode in the history of Great Britain beginning in 1660 when the monarchy was restored under King Charles II after the English Civil War. ... The broad definition of Regicide is the deliberate killing of a king, or the person responsible for it. ... Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649) was King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649. ... This article is about the British House of Lords. ...

The Biography is one of the most interesting in the language, not only because of its immediate subject, but of the light which it throws upon the characteristics and conditions of the life of Puritans of good family. Originally intended for her family only, it was printed by a descendant in 1806, and cleared away many false impressions about the narrowness and austerity of the educated Puritans. 1806 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...

Hutchinson's works included 'Order and Disorder', possibly the first epic written by a woman in the English language. The work is a verse rendition of the book of Genesis, offering parallel's to John Milton's 'Paradise Lost'. Although only five cantos of the work were published in her lifetime, in 2001 the critic David Norbrook published the work in full.

John and Lucy had nine children:

• son John Hutchinson, born 1650 in Owthorpe, Notts, England.

This article incorporates public domain text from: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London, J.M. Dent & sons; New York, E.P. Dutton. The public domain comprises the body of all creative works and other knowledge—writing, artwork, music, science, inventions, and others—in which no person or organization has any proprietary interest. ... A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature is a collection of biographies of writers by John W. Cousin, published around 1910. ...