The Act of Oblivion passed in 1660 was meant to signal how the fractured kingdom could heal after the Civil War. It aimed to ‘bury all seeds of future discords’ by wiping the slate clean, outlawing even ‘terms of distinction [and] … words of reproach any way tending to revive the memory of the late differences’. The act was created to draw a line under the past twenty years of civil war, regicide, and bitter religious, political and cultural divisions. But could an act of parliament so easily erase this traumatic past? The impact of the war on families and communities proved impossible to forget, and memories of loyalties to both monarchy and parliament enabled the civil war to continue through other means than the sword. Individuals and families used funeral memorials to tell stories of their part in the wars.

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荣誉、记忆和血统：通过葬礼纪念英国内战

1660 年通过的遗忘法案旨在表明内战后破碎的王国如何愈合。它的目的是通过擦干净石板来“埋葬未来不和的所有种子”，甚至禁止“区分条件[和]……任何旨在恢复对最近分歧的记忆的谴责词”。该法案旨在为过去二十年的内战、弑君以及激烈的宗教、政治和文化分歧划清界限。但议会的一项法案能如此轻易地抹去这段痛苦的过去吗？事实证明，战争对家庭和社区的影响是无法忘记的，对君主制和议会的忠诚的记忆使内战能够通过剑以外的其他方式继续进行。个人和家庭使用葬礼纪念物来讲述他们在战争中所扮演的角色。