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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

in bright Armour in the said Town of Leicester David Evans of Abergenny in the County of Monmouth Smith Aged about twenty three years Sworn and Examined saith That about half an hour before the Fight at Naseby about Midsummer in June 1645. he saw the King marching up to the Battail in the Head of his Army being about half a mile from the place where the said Battail was fought Diogenes Edwards of Carston in the County of Salop Butcher Aged 21 years or thereabouts Sworn and Examined saith That in June 1645. he this Deponent did see the King in the Head of his Army an hour and a half before the Fight in Naseby Field marching up to the Battail being then a mile and a half from the said Field And this Deponent saith That he did afterwards the same day see many slain at the said Battail Giles Gryce of Wellington in Shropshire Gent. Sworn and Examined Deposeth That he this Deponent saw the King in the Head of his Army at Cropredy-Bridge with his Sword drawn in his Hand that day when the Fight was against Sir William Waller on a Fryday as this Deponent remembreth in the Year 1644 about the Month of Iuly and he further saith That he saw the King in the same Summer in Cornwall in the Head of his Army about Lestithiel at such time as the Earl of Essex was there with his Army And he further saith That he also saw the King in the Head of his Army at the second Fight near Newberry And further saith That he saw the King in the Front of the Army in Naseby Field having Back and Breast on And he further saith That he saw the King in the Head of the Army at what time the Town of Leicester was stormed and saw the King Ride into the Town of Leicester after the Town was taken and he saw a great many men killed on both sides at Leicester and many Houses Plundred John Vinson of Damorham in the County of Wilts Gent. Sworn and Examined saith That he did see the King at the First Newberry Fight about the Month of September 1643. in the Head of his Army where this Deponent did see many slain on both sides this Deponent also saith That he did see the King at the Second Battail at Newberry about the Month of November 1644. where the King was at the Head of his Army in Complete Armour with his Sword drawn and this Deponent did then see the King Lead up Colonel Thomas Howards Regiment of Horse and did hear him make a Speech to the Soldiers in the Head of that Regiment to this effect that is to say That the said Regiment should stand to him that Day for that his Crown lay upon the Point of the Sword and if he lost that Day he lost his Honour and his Crown for ever And that this Deponent did see many slain on both sides at that Battail This Deponent further saith That he did see the King in the Battail at Naseby Field in Northamptonshire on or about the Month of June 1645. where the King was then Completely Armed with Back Breast and Helmet and had his Sword drawn where the King himself after his Party was Routed did Rally up the Horse and caused them to stand and at that time this Deponent did see many slain on both sides George Seely of London Cordwainer Sworn and Examined saith That he did see the King at the Head of a Brigade of Horse at the Siege of Gloucester and did also see the King at the First Fight at Newberry about the Month of September 1643. where the King was at the Head of a Regiment of Horse and that there were many slain at that Fight on both sides This Deponent also saith That he did see the King at the second Fight at Newbery which was about November 1644. where the King was in the middle of his Army John Moore of the City of Corke in Ireland Gent. Sworn and Examined saith That at the last Fight at Newberry about the Month of November 1644. he this Deponent did see the King in the middle of the Horse with his Sword drawn and that he did see abundance of men at that Fight slain upon the ground on both sides This Deponent also saith That he did see the King ride into Leicester before a Party of Horse the same day that Leicester was taken by the Kings Forces which was about the Month of June 1645. This Deponent further saith That he did see the King before the Fight at Leicester at Cropredy-Bridge in the midst of a Regiment of Horse And that he did see many slain at the same time when the King was in the Fight at Cropredy-Bridge And Lastly this Deponent saith That he did see the King at the head of a Regiment of Horse at Naseby Fight about the Month of June 1645. where he did see abundance of men Cut Shot and slain Thomas Ives of Boyset in the County of Northampton Husbandman Sworn and Examined saith That he did see the King in his Army at the First Fight of Newberry in Berkshire in the Month of September 1643. and that he did see many slain at that Fight he this Deponent and others with a Party of Horse being Commanded to face the Parliaments Forces whilst the Foot did fetch off the Dead He saith also That he did see the King advance with his Army to the Fight at Naseby Field in Northamptonshire about June 1645. and that he did again at that Fight see the King come off with a Party of Horse after that his Army was Routed in the Field and that there were many Men slain on both parts at that Battail at Naseby Thomas Rawlins of Hanslop in the County of Bucks Gent sworn and examined saith That he did see the King near Foy in Cornwal in or about the Month of July 1644. at the Head of a Party of Horse and this Deponent did see some Soldiers plunder after the Articles of Agreement made between the King's Army and the Parliaments Forces which Soldiers were so plundered by the King's Party not far distant from the Person of the King Thomas Read of Maidstone in the County of Kent Gent. sworn and examined saith That presently after the laying down of Arms in Cornwal between Lestithiel and Foy in or about the latter end of the Month of August or the beginning of September 1644. he this Deponent did see the King in the Head of a Guard of Horse James Crosby of Dublin in Ireland Barber sworn and examined saith That at the first Fight at Newbury about the time of Barley-Harvest 1643. he this Deponent did see the King riding from Newbury Town accompanied with divers Lords and Gentlemen towards the place where his Forces were then fighting with the Parliaments Army Samuel Burden of Lyneham in the County of Wilts Gent. sworn and examined saith That he this Deponent was at Nottingham in or about the Month of August 1642. at which time he