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A52526	An exact and most impartial accompt of the indictment, arraignment, trial, and judgment (according to law) of twenty nine regicides, the murtherers of His Late Sacred Majesty of most glorious memory begun at Hicks-Hall on Tuesday, the 9th of October, 1660, and continued (at the Sessions-House in the Old-Bayley) until Friday, the nineteenth of the same moneth : together with a summary of the dark and horrid decrees of the caballists, preperatory to that hellish fact exposed to view for the reader's satisfaction, and information of posterity.	Nottingham, Heneage Finch, Earl of, 1621-1682.	1679 (1679)	Wing N1404; ESTC R17120	239,655	332

be directed to answer and if he refused That the matter of the Charge be taken pro confesso And the King not owning their Authority was remanded Fol. 58. Westminster-Hall Tuesday the 23d Afternoon The King not owning their Authority was remanded and the Court Adjourned to the Painted-Chamber And there Resolved They would examine Witnesses Fol. 61. Painted-Chamber Wednesday the 24th was spent in examining their Witnesses Fol. 66. Painted-Chamber Thursday the 25th Afternoon They examined more Witnesses They Resolved to proceed to Sentence of Condemnation against the King And that this Condemnation be for being Tyrant Traytor and Murtherer and Publick Enemy to the Commonwealth And that the Condemnation extend to Death Fol. 68. And Ordered That a Sentence grounded upon these Votes be prepared by Scot Marten Harrison and others Painted-Chamber Friday the 26 th The draught of the Sentence Reported and agreed And Resolved That the King be brought the next day to Westminster-Hall to receive it Fol 96. Painted-Chamber Saturday the 27 th Fore-noon The Sentence being engrossed Resolved The same should be the Sentence which should be read and published in Westminster-Hall the same day That the President should not permit the King to speak after Sentence That after the Sentence read he should declare it to be the Sence and Judgment of the Court. That the Commissioners should thereupon signifie their Consent by standing up And the same day the Commons Ordered the Clerk to bring in the Records of that Judgment to the House Journal of the House Westminster-Hall the same Day After-noon The King being brought in and not owning their Authority the Sentence was read And upon the Declaration of the President That it was the Judgment of the Court they stood up and Owned it and Adjourned to the Painted-Chamber And there appointed Waller and others to consider of the Time and Place for Execution Painted-Chamber Monday the 29 th Upon the report of the Committee Ordered A Warrant be drawn for executing the King in the open Street before White-Hall the next day directed to Hacker and others which was done accordingly Fol. 116. 31. January 1648. Ordered by the Commons That the Lord Grey out of Haberdashers-Hall to difpose of 100 l. for the Service of the Common-wealth 2. February 1648. They Ordered in the first place to take into Consideration and Debate the House of Lords for settlement of the Government 6. February 1648. The House being seventy three And the Question put Whether that House should take the Advice of the House of Lords in the exercise of the Legislative Power The House was divided and it carried in the Negative by fifteen Voices And then Resolved That the House of Peers was useless and dangerous and ought to be abolished And Ordered an Act to be brought in for that purpose 7. February 1648. The Declared That the Office of a King in this Nation and to have Power thereof in a Single Person was unnecessary burthensom and dangerous to the Liberty Safety and publick interest of the People and therefore ought to be abolished 9. February 1648. They Ordered The Narrative of the Proceeding and Records for Tryal of the King to be forthwith brought into this House 16. February 1648. They Ordered That the Clerk of that High Court of Justice be desired to bring in those Proceedings to their House the next Day March 1648. Sir Arthur Hasilrig Reports from the Committee that Charls and James Stewart Sons of the late King should dye without Mercy wheresoever they should be found 12. December 1650. Mr. Say Reported the Proceedings of their High-Court against the King contained in a Book entituled A Journal c. which was read at large by their Clerk He likewise presented from that Court the Act for Tryal of the King and the Precept for holding the Court. The Charge was exhibited the twentieth And The Sentence Read the twenty seventh of January 1648. And thereupon they Declared That the Persons entrusted in that great Service had discharged their Trust with great Courage and Fidelity That the Parliament was well satisfied in that Accompt of the Particulars and Proceedings And Ordered That the same Records do remain among the Records of Parliament That those Proceedings be Engrossed in a Roll and Recorded among the Parliament-Rolls for transmitting the Memory thereof to Posterity And Resolved That their Commissioners for their Great Seal issue a Certiorari to their Clerk to transmit those Proceedings into the Chancery there to be on Record And that the same be sent by Mittimus from thence to other Courts at Westminster and Custos Rotulorum of the Counties to be Recorded In the County Middlesex The Proceedings at Hicks Hall Tuesday the 9th of October 1660. in order to the Tryal of the pretended Judges of his late Sacred Majesty THe Court being sate the Commission of Oyer and Terminer under the Great Seal of England was first read It was directed to the Lords and others hereafter named viz. Thomas Aleyn Knight and Baronet Lord Mayor of the City of London The Lord Chancellor of England The Earl of South-hampton Lord Treasurer of England The Duke of Somerset The Duke of Albemarle The Marquess of Ormond Steward of his Majesties Houshold The Earl of Lindsey Great Chamberlain of England The Earl of Manchester Chamberlain of his Majesties Houshold The Earl of Dorset The Earl of Berkshire The Earl of Sandwich Viscount Say and Seal The Lord Roberts The Lord Finch Denzil Hollis Esquire Sir Frederick Cornwallis Knight and Baronet Treasurer of His Majesties Houshold Sir Charles Barkly Knight Comptrouler of His Majesties Houshold Mr. Secretary Nicholas Mr. Secretary Morris Sir Anthony Ashley-Cooper Arthur Annesley Esquire The Lord Chief Baron Mr. Justice Foster Mr. Justice Mallet Mr. Justice Hide Mr. Baron Atkins Mr. Justice Twisden Mr. Justice Tyrrel Mr. Baron Turner Sir Harbottle Grimston Knight and Baronet Sir William Wild Knight and Baronet Recorder of London Mr. Serjeant Brown Mr. Serjeant Hale John Howel Esquire Sir Geoffry Palmer His Majestie 's Attorny General Sir Heneage Finch His Majestie 's Solicitor General Sir Edward Turner Attorney to His Highness the Duke of York Wadham Windham Esquire Edward Shelton Esquire Clerk of the Crown The Grand Jury Sworn were Sir William Darcy Baronet Foreman Sir Robert Bolles Baronet Sir Edward Ford Knight Sir Thomas Prestwick Sir William Coney Knight Sir Charles Sidley Baronet Sir Lewis Kirk Knight Sir Henry Littleton Baronet Sir Ralph Bovey Baronet Edward Chard Esquire Robert Giggon Esquire John Fotherly Esquire Charles Gibbons Esquire Thomas Geree Esquire Richard Cox Esquire Robert Bladwell Esquire Henry Mustian Esquire John Markham Esquire Edward Buckley Gent. Francis Bourchier Gent. Edward Lole Hart Cryer After Proclamation for silence was made it pleased Sir Orlando-Bridgman Lord Chief Baron of His Majestie 's High Court of Exchequer to speak to the Jury as followeth The Lord Chief Baron's Speech Gentlemen YOu are the Grand Inquest for the Body of this County of Middlesex You may

least question the Legality of this Parliament yet my Lords to this particular purpose whether the Parliament that was to except ought not to be a Parliament that was to be called accoring to his Majesties Writ according to the Laws of the Kingdom I humbly conceive it will bear that though His Majesty is pleased to confirm this yet it is not such a Parliament that was to except that I offer to your Lordships My Lords that that I would humbly make hold to put for my self because it is the priviledge of one in my condition is this There is my Lord many Lords the Earl of Essex the Earl of Southampton and others that were adjudged in the 44 of Eliz. 3. institutes they did trayterously and maliciously conspire to take her Majesty Prisoner and to remove her Counsellours from her which were found guilty and suffered accordingly the reason is That because thereby if it had been done they had despoiled her Maje of her Regal Government the case is instant in Philip who was a nominative King that it was not Treason to have attempted any thing against him My Lords his Majesty being a Prisoner without any hand of mine I giving advice according to what was dictated to me to bring him to that tryal whereby he might have been acquitted and so set at liberty I hope that will not be said as instrumental My Lords I humbly shall offer but two words 1. to honourable Court then to the Jury the words of 25 E. 3. and so the exposition of the learned Judges have been from time to time that there shll be no semblable Treasons made by presumptions or strains of wit but those Treasons specified there It is said if a Husband do kill his Wife or a Wife kill her Husband a Master should kill his Servant or the Servant should kill his Master that that shall be petty Treason a Child did kill his Father though that was looked upon as a great sin yet the Judges do not presume that to be Treason because it was not in the very words this being an extraordinary Case to write a thing after another doth not appear there was a malicious heart in him that did write There hath been the Act of Parlia that doth call these Courts Tyrannical and Unlawful Courts but my Lords a Tyrannical and Unlawful Court is a Court de facto though not de jure if a Court be not a just and lawful Court it cannot be said but that it is a Court we say a Thief is a true man though morally he is not so this was a Court Officers attending on them some said they had Authority therefore for one to come and act within his Sphere not to act out of that nor to do any thing but what he had a prescript form appointed him I hope that will not be found to be within the letter of the Law I have been told how true I cannot tell that there have been some votes in the honourable Parliament that those that did only counsel or advise those were not to be looked upon as Traytors I have been told so that those that did only speak as Councel for their Fee who were not the contrivers of it the Parliament did not intend they should be left to be proceeded against Court That Letter that was sent from the Commons to the King at Breda they speak first of the violation that was put upon the Parliament and of the base horrid Murther of his late Majesty It is said that the Parliament I conceive they meant of the remaining part they were not guilty but some few ambitious bloody guilty persons who contrived the same and others misled by them Cook The other matter of Law is this I say that I do hope that though that order which I was about to produce concering my acting that if it may not in a legal sense any way be said to be an Act of the Parliament and Commons yet it may be said to be such an order to bear out those that did Act according to it because there was then no other authory de facto otherwise it were not lawful for any man to exercise his profession during such a Power I hope Councellors might then exercise their profession aswel as others My Lord though I should suffer my self in this case I should be loth the honourable profession of the Law should I think I was in my Sphere acting as a Counsellor Now Gentlemen of the Jury that which I have to say to you is an evidence concerning matter of life it must be so clear that every one that hears it may understand it It is called an evidence because it is evident it is one reason why Prisoners for their lives are not allowed Counsel for matter of fact because the evidence is and ought to be so clear and plain that every one should be satisfied both Jury and standers by and it is a proper word to say the Prisoner is convicted that is as much as his mouth is stopped and therefore I say truly as I hope I may speak it to you without offence as Jeremy in another Case when some of the people would have had them put him to death as for me behold I am in your hand do with me as seemeth good and meet unto you 26. Jer. 14 15. ver saith he But know ye for certain that if ye put me to death ye shall surely bring innocent blood upon your selves I hope you will not willingly be Guilty of any such thing I must leave it to your consciences whether you believe that I had an hand in the K. Death when I did write but only that which others did dictate unto me and when I spoke only for my Fee and this I would be bold to say though the argument is not so directly confessed that humane Justice I do first say as this my principle and opinion is that as every man ought to pay his moral debts so all political debts there is a debt due to human Justice so political if the Lord should have suffered me to have been drunk and kill'd a man for which I ought to have died in stead of speaking for my self I would have rather intreated the Jury to have found me Guilty I think these things ought to be answered political debts when I was in Ireland and had opportunity of going away if I thought I had been Guilty I might have done it my name is put into his Majesties Proclamation It is true I was a prisoner three or four months before so that I could not render my self to what end should that Proclamation mention my name it was laid I obscured my self but I did not humane Justice doth never punish so much for expiation as for prevention The judgements of the learned Aquinas Grotius and Amesius and many others that if a man doth kill a man commit any thing worthy of death though he doth repent never so much yet that others may