Charles is regarded by many members of the Church of England as a martyr because, it is said,[REF] he was offered his life if he would abandon the historic episcopacy in the Church of England.
Both high church Anglicans and royalists fashioned an image of martyrdom,[REF] and after the Restoration of the monarchy the Church of England canonised him as a saint, in the Convocations of Canterbury and York of 1660 [REF].