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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63490	A True copy of the journal of the High Court of Justice for the tryal of K. Charles I as it was read in the House of Commons and attested under the hand of Phelps, clerk to that infamous court / taken by J. Nalson Jan. 4, 1683 : with a large introduction.	Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649, defendant.; Phelps, John, fl. 1636-1666.; Nalson, John, 1638?-1686.	1684 (1684)	Wing T2645; ESTC R5636	141,696	216

bring this Design to pass he hath prosecuted it with Fire and Sword Levied and maintained a cruel VVar in the Land against the Parliament and Kingdom whereby the Country hath been miserably wasted the Publick Treasure Exhausted Trade decayed thousands of People murdered and infinite other mischiefs committed For all which high and treasonable Offences the said Charles Stuart might long since justly have been brought to exemplary and condign Punishment VVhereas also the Parliament well hoping that the Restraint and Imprisonment of his Person after it had pleased God to deliver him into their hands would have quieted the distempers of the Kingdom did forbear to proceed Judicially against him but found by sad Experience that such their Remisness served only to encourage him and his Complices in the continuance of their evil practices and in raising of new Commotions Rebellions and Invasions for prevention therefore of the like or greater Inconveniences and to the end no Chief Officer or Magistrate whatsoever may hereafter presume traiterously and maliciously to imagine or contrive the Enslaving or Destroying of the English Nation and to expect Impunity for so doing Be it Ordained and Enacted by the Commons in Parliament and it is hereby Ordained and Enacted by Authority thereof That Thomas Lord Fairfax Oliver Cromwell Henry Ireton Esquires Sir Hardress Waller Knight Philip Skippon Valentine Wauton Thomas Harrison Edward Whaley Thomas Pride Isaac Ewer Richard Ingoldsby Henry Mildmay Esquires Sir Thomas Honywood Thomas Lord Grey of Groby Philip Lord Lisle William Lord Mounson Sir John Danvers Sir Thomas Maleverer Baronet Sir John Bourchier Sir James Harrington Sir William Allanson Sir Henry Mildmay Sir Thomas Wroth Knights Sir William Masham Sir John Barrington Sir William Brereton Baronets Robert Wallop William Heveningham Esquires Isaac Pennington Thomas Atkins Rowland Wilson Aldermen of the City of London Sir Peter Wentworth Knight of the Bath Henry Martin William Purefoy Godfrey Bosvile John Trenchard Herbert Morley John Berkstead Matthew Tomlinson John Blackiston Gilbert Millington Esquires Sir William Constable Baronet Edmond Ludlow John Lambert John Hutchinson Esquires Sir Arthur Hesilrige Sir Michael Livesey Baronets Richard Salwey Humphry Salwey Robert Tichbourn Owen Roe Robert Manwaring Robert Lilbourn Adrian Scroop Richard Deare John Okey Robert Overton John Huson John Desborough William Goff Robert Duckenfield Cornelius Holland John Carey Esquires Sir William Armyn Baronet John Jones Esquire Miles Corbet Francis Allen Thomas Lister Benjamin Weston Perigrin Pelham John Gourdon Esquires Francis Thorp Serjeant at Law John Nutt Thomas Challoner Algernon Sydney John Anlaby John Moore Richard Darley VVilliam Say Joh. Aldred John Fagg James Nelthorp Esquires Sir VVilliam Roberts Knight Francis Lastells Alexander Rigby Henry Smith Edmond VVild James Challoner Josias Berners Dennis Bond Humphrey Edwards Gregory Clement John Fry Thomas VVogan Esquires Sir Gregory Norton Baronet John Bradshaw Serjeant at Law Edmond Harvey John Dove John Ven Esquires Iohn Fowks Alderman of the City of London Thomas Scot Esquire Thomas Andrews Alderman of the City of London William Cawley Abraham Burrell Anthony Stapeley Roger Gratwick Iohn Downs Thomas Horton Thomas Hammond George Fenwick Esquires Robert Nicholas Serjeant at Law Robert Reynolds Iohn Lisle Nicholas Love Vincent Potter Esquires Sir Gilbert Pickering Baronet Iohn Weaver Roger Hill Iohn Lenthall Esquires Sir Edward Banton Iohn Corbet Thomas Blunt Thomas Boon Augustine Garland Augustine Skinner Iohn Dixwell George Fleetwood Simon Meyne Iames Temple Peter Temple Daniel Blagrave Esquires Sir Peter Temple Knight and Baronet Thomas VVayte Iohn Brown Iohn Lowry Esquires Shall be and are hereby Appointed and Required to be Commissioners and Judges for the Hearing Trying and Adjudging of the said Charles Stuart And the said Commissioners or any Twenty or more of them shall be and are hereby Authorized and Constituted an High Court of Justice to meet and sit at such convenient time and place as by the said Commissioners or the major part of twenty or more of them under their Hands and Seals shall be appointed and notified by publick Proclaimation in the great Hall or Palace-Yard at VVestminster and to adjourn from time to time and from place to place as the said High Court or major part thereof meeting shall hold fit and to take order for the charging of him the said Charles Stuart with the Crimes and Treasons abovementioned and for the receiving of his personal Answer thereunto and for the examination of VVitnesses upon Oath which the Court hath hereby Authority to administer or otherwise and taking any other Evidence concerning the same and thereupon or in default of such Answer to proceed to final Sentence according to Justice and the merit of the Cause and such final Sentence to execute or cause to be executed speedily and impartially And the said Court is hereby Authorized and required to appoint and direct all such Officers Attendants and other circumstances as they or the major part of them shall in any sort Judge necessary or useful for the orderly and good managing of the premises And Thomas Lord Fairfax the General and all Officers and Soldiers under his command and all Officers of Justice and other well affected persons are hereby Authorized and required to be aiding and assisting unto the said Court in the due Execution of the Trust hereby committed Provided That this Act and the Authority hereby granted do continue in force for the space of one Month from the making hereof and no longer Hen. Scobell Cler. Par. Dom. Com. In pursuance of which said Act the House of Commons Ordered as followeth viz. Die Sabbati 6. Jan. 1648. ORdered by the Commons Assembled in Parliament That the Commissioners nominated in the Act for Erecting of an High Court of Iustice for the Trying and Iudging of Charles Stuart King of England do meet on Monday next at two of the Clock in the afternoon in the Painted Chamber By virtue of which said recited Act and of the said Order grounded thereupon the Commissioners whose Names are here under-written met on Monday the said eighth day of January 1648. in the said Painted Chamber at Westminster where the said Act was openly read and the Court called Commissioners Present Thomas Lord Fairfax Oliver Cromwell Esq Henry Ireton Esq Sir Hardress Waller Valentine Wauton Edward Whaley Thomas Pride Isaac Ewers Sir Gregory Norton Bar. Peter Temple Esq John Ven Esq Thomas Challoner Esq Henry Martin Esq John Berkstead Esq Gilbert Millington Esq Richard Deane Esq Cornelius Holland Esq John Jones Esq John Aldred Esq Henry Smith Esq John Lisle Esq James Temple Esq Adrian Scroope Esq Edmond Ludlow Esq John Huson Esq Thomas Harrison Esq Nicholas Love Esq Thomas Lord Grey of Groby Sir John Danvers Sir Tho Maleverer Bar. Sir John Bourchier Sir Henry Mildmay James Challoner Esq Gregory Clement Esq John Fry Esq Augustine Garland Esq Daniel Blagrave Esq Robert Tichbourn Esq Wil. Heveningham Esq William Purefoy Esq John Blackistone Esq William Lord Mounson John Okey Esq John Carew Esq