Sexby is arrested and exiled after he refuses to fight for Cromwell. Angelica is distraught but agrees to honour Sexby's departing wish and settle her debt with her enemy Joliffe.

The country is in shock and divided as Oliver Cromwell puts the King on trial for treason and becomes the first head of the Republican Government.

The people of the besieged city of Oxford are in a desperate situation. Devastated by the King's brutal betrayal, Angelica has been cast out of court, and is destitute and starving.

Angelica is born in 1623, when England is divided both politically and religiously, a time when political disobedience turned to revolution and civil war, and English history changed forever...