Even on the eve of the Dissolution, Prioress Jane Vane wrote to Cromwell on behalf of a postulant, saying that though she had not actually been professed, she was professed in her heart and in the eyes of God.

It was adapted for television in 1987 as part of a series starring Edward Petherbridge as Lord Peter and Harriet Walter as Harriet Vane.

Lord Peter Wimsey was played by Ian Carmichael in a series of independent serials that ran from 1972 to 1975 and adapted five novels ( Clouds of Witness, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, Five Red Herrings, Murder Must Advertise and The Nine Tailors ) and by Edward Petherbridge in 1987, in which three of the four major Wimsey / Vane novels ( Strong Poison, Have his Carcase and Gaudy Night ) were dramatised.

Harriet Vane was played by Harriet Walter.

Henry Vane the Younger in relation to Strafford's alleged improper use and threat to England via the Irish army was not corroborated by Henry Vane the Elder.

Henry Vane the Elder was on the King's Privy council and completely loyal to the King.

Henry Vane the younger removed himself from Parliament in protest of this unlawful action by Ireton, and was not party to the execution of Charles I, though Cromwell was.

Henry Vane the Younger, was persuaded to rejoin Parliament on 17 February 1649 and a Council of state was installed, into whose hands the executive government of the nation was committed.

Sir Henry Vane was appointed a member of the Council.

Sir Henry Vane was for some time President of the Council, and, as Treasurer and Commissioner for the Navy, he had almost the exclusive direction of that branch of public service.

Henry Vane was working on a Reform Bill.

Once again, Sir Henry Vane was the leading catalyst for the republican cause in opposition to force by the military.

Henry Vane was elected to Parliament at Kingston upon Hull, but the certificate was given to another.

Finally Vane proceeded to Whitechurch in Hampshire and was elected a third time and was this time seated in Parliament.

Whereupon Henry Vane the Younger was discharged from being a member of the Long Parliament ; and Major Saloway was reproved for his role and committed to the Tower during the pleasure of the house.

At a conference between the two Houses, it was concluded that the Commons should consent to except him from the act of indemnity, the Lords agreeing, on their part, to concur with the other House in petitioning the King, in case of the condemnation of Vane, not to carry the sentence into execution.

This view was confirmed by a court ruling during the treason trial of Henry Vane the Younger.

However it is a well known fact that the trial given to Henry Vane as to his own person, and defense of his own part played for the Long Parliament was a forgone conclusion.

On 10 April Pym's case collapsed, but Pym made a direct appeal to the Younger Vane to produce a copy of the notes from the King's Privy council, discovered by the younger Vane and secretly turned over to Pym, to the great anguish of the Elder Vane.

The battle turned out to be a heavy English defeat, forcing the English to rethink their naval strategy, led by Admiral Sir Henry Vane and an Admiralty Committee, including developing a tactic that would mark naval warfare for the following century.

He told Sir Henry Vane he was a Jugler ; Henry Martin and Sir Peter Wentworth, that they were Whoremasters ; Thomas Chaloner, he was a Drunkard ; and Allen the Goldsmith that he cheated the Publick: Then he bid one of his Soldiers take away that Fool's Bauble the mace and Thomas Harrison pulled the Speaker of the Chair ; and in short Cromwell having turned them all out of the House, lock'd up the Doors and returned to Whitehall.

Rogers had control of Nassau, but Charles Vane was loose and threatening to drive Rogers out, and Rogers received word that the King of Spain wanted to drive the English completely out of the Bahamas.

The more divergent theological ideas of Hutchinson and the colony's young governor, Henry Vane ( who came from England with his own non-orthodox notions ) did not stick out much because of Cotton's own divergence from the mainstream Puritan orthodoxy.

But as soon as he found out what had happened, Bowen-Colthurst's commanding officer, Sir Francis Fletcher Vane tried to have Bowen-Colthurst arrested for murder, and was sacked from the army for his pains ( as the Public Records Office nicely put it: " this officer was relegated to unemployment owing to his action in the Skeffington murder case in the Sinn Féin rebellion ").

However, less than a month into his residence on New Providence, Rogers was faced with a double threat: Vane wrote, threatening to join with Edward Teach ( better known as Blackbeard ) to retake the island, and Rogers learned that the Spanish also planned to drive the British out of the Bahamas.

Even the governor of the colony, Henry Vane was a strong admirer of Mrs. Hutchinson, but he was voted out of office, and when John Winthrop became the governor strong measures were taken to " stamp out heresy and drive out the heretics.

The act pardoned most who had sided with Parliament during the Civil War, but excepted the regicides, two prominent unrepentant republicans John Lambert and Henry Vane the Younger, and around another twenty were forbidden to take any public office or sit in Parliament.

Sayers had charted the developing relationship between Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane over four published novels, culminating in Busman's Honeymoon, the action of which takes place immediately following the couple's marriage.

The governor in 1636 was Henry Vane, and the colony was split over the actions of Anne Hutchinson.

After a long struggle Lilith bids Adam cut her hand from her body ; it is done, Lilith sleeps, and Vane is sent to bury the hand ; water flows from the hole and washes the land over.

After the Rising of the North the castle became the property of the Crown for over forty three years, before being bought by Henry Vane, 1st Earl of Darlington who previously resided at Barnard Castle in County Durham.

Whereas Coke, John Pym, Lucy Hutchinson and Sir Henry Vane saw Magna Carta rights as being primarily those of the propertied classes, during the prolonged 17th-century constitutional crisis in England and Scotland, the arguments were also taken up in a more radical way by the likes of Francis Trigge, John Hare, John Lilburne, John Warr and Gerrard Winstanley of the radical Diggers even calling for an end to primogeniture and for the cultivation of the soil in common.

He found women attractive: besides to his marriage to Mary Lepell, he had an affair with Anne Vane, and possibly ones with Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Princess Caroline.

This part of his life remains hazy: it is hardly ever mentioned in the books set in the same period ; most of the scanty information on the subject is given in flashbacks from later times, after he met Harriet Vane and relations with other women became a closed chapter.

In Strong Poison Lord Peter encounters Harriet Vane, a cerebral, Oxford-educated mystery writer, while she is on trial for the murder of her former lover.

Vane managed the debates on behalf of the House of Commons.

Though Col. Lambert subsequently acquitted himself to Henry Vane the Younger and Edmond Ludlow and the " Committee on Safety " an instrument of the Wallingford House party acting under their miss-direction.

Starting on December 17, 1659, Henry Vane representing the Parliament, Major Saloway and Col. Salmon with powers from the officers of the army to treat with the fleet, and Vice-Admiral Lawson met in negotiating a compromise.

King Charles II did not keep the promise made to the house but executed the sentence of death on Sir Henry Vane the Younger.

In Dorothy L. Sayers's novel Gaudy Night, set in 1935, the main character Harriet Vane, a crime fiction writer, covers her investigation on a mystery case at her fictional Oxford college, Shrewsbury, with research on Sheridan Le Fanu.

In Thrones, Dominations, the last, unfinished novel by Sayers, completed by Jill Paton Walsh, the Author's Note states that Harriet Vane published a monograph on Sheridan Le Fanu in 1946, drawing on this research.

* Dorothy Sayers ' 1936 mystery novel Gaudy Night is set in Oxford, and one of the most important concluding conversations between Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane takes place on the balustraded circular rooftop of the Radcliffe Camera.

During a hiking holiday after her acquittal on murder charges in Strong Poison, Harriet Vane discovers the body of a man, with his throat cut and the blood still liquid, on an isolated rock on the shore.

Jill Paton Walsh followed it in 2002 with another Wimsey / Vane novel, A Presumption of Death, set during World War II and based on some short wartime writings of Sayers known as " The Wimsey Papers ".

Vane, a mystery writer, initially meets Lord Peter Wimsey when she is on trial for poisoning her lover ( Strong Poison ) — he falls in love with her and proposes marriage but she refuses to begin a relationship with him, traumatised as she is by her dead lover's treatment of her and her recent ordeal.

( In Thrones, Dominations, the Author's Note states that Vane published a monograph on Sheridan Le Fanu in 1946.

Sayers consciously modelled Vane on herself, although perhaps not as closely as her fans ( and even friends ) sometimes thought.

In the detective novel A Presumption of Death, taking place in the early days of World War II, the plot centers on Harriet Vane and Lord Peter Wimsey trying to solve the murder of a land girl who had come to work at a village in Hertfordshire.