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A47456 King Charls his tryal at the high court of justice sitting in Westminster Hall, begun on Saturday, Jan. 20, ended Jan. 27, 1648 also His Majesties speech on the scaffold immediately before his execution on Tuesday, Ian. 30 : together with the several speeches of Duke Hamilton, the Earl of Holland, and the Lord Capel, immediately before their execution on Friday, March 9, 1649. Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.; Holland, Henry Rich, Earl of, 1590-1649.; Hamilton, James Hamilton, Duke of, 1606-1649. 1650 (1650) Wing K556; ESTC R11695 57,138 138

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this High Court of Justice before which you are brought This said M. Cook Attorney for the Common-wealth standing within a Bar on the right hand of the Prisoner offered to speak but the King having a staff in his Hand held it up and laid it upon the said M. Cooks shoulder two or three times bidding him hold Nevertheless the Lord President ordering him to go on he said M. Cook My Lord I am commanded to charge CHARLES STVART King of England in the name of the Commons of England with Treason and high Misdemeanors I desire the said Charge may be read The said Charge being delivered to the Clerk of the Court the Lord President ordered it should be read but the King bid him hold Nevertheless being commanded by the Lord President to read it the Clerk begun THE Charge of the Commons of ENGLAND against Charles Stuart KING of England Of High Treason and other High Crimes exhibited to the High Court of Justice THat the said CHARLES STVART being admitted King of England and therein trusted with a limited Power to govern by and according to the Laws of the Land and not otherwise And by his Trust Oath and Office being obliged to use the Power committed to him For the good and benefit of the People and for the preservation of their Rights and Liberties Yet nevertheless out of a wicked Design to erect and uphold in himself and unlimited and Tyrannical Power to rule according to his Will and to overthrow the Rights and Liberties of the People Yea to take away and make void the Foundations thereof and of all redress and remedy of misgovernement which by the fundamental Constitutions of this Kingdom were reserved on the Peoples behalf in the Right and Power of frequent and successive Parliaments or National meetings in Councel He the said CHARLES STVART for accomplishment of such his Designs and for the protecting of himself and his adherents in His and Their wicked Practises to the same Ends hath Trayterously and maliciously levyed War against the present Parliament and the People therein Represented Particularly upon or about the thirtieth day of June in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred fourty and two At Beverly in the County of York And upon or about the thirtieth day of July in the year aforesaid in the County of the City of York And upon or about the twenty fourth day of August in the same year at the County of the Town of Nottingham when and where He set up His Standard of War And also on or about the twenty third day of October in the same year at Edg-Hill Keinton-field in the County of Warwick And upon or about the thirtieth day of November in the same year at Brainchford in the County of Middlesex And upon or about the thirtieth day of August in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred fourty and three at Cavesham-bridge neer Roding in the County of Berks And upon or about the thirtieth day of October in the year last mentioned at or neer the City of Glocester And upon or about the thirtieth day of November in the year last mentioned at Newbery in the County of Berks And upon or about the one and thirtieth day of July in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred fourty and four at Cropredy-Bridge in the County of Oxon And upon or about the thirtieth day of September in the year last mentioned at Bodmin and other places neer adjacent in the County of Cornwal And upon or about the thirtieth day of November in the year last mentioned at Newbery aforesaid And upon or about the eighth day of June in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred fourty and five at the Town of Leicester And also upon the fourteenth day of the same month on the same year at Naseby-field in the County of Northampton At which several times and places or most of them and at many other places in this Land at several other times within the years aforementioned And in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred fourty and six He the said CHARLES STVART hath caused and procured many thousands of the Free-People of the Nation to be slain and by Divisions Parties and Insurrections within this Land by Invasions from Forraign parts endevored and procured by Him and by many other evil ways and means He the said CHARLS STVART hath not only maintained and carried on the said War both by Land and Sea during the years before mentioned but also hath renewed or caused to be renewed the said War against the Parliament and good People of this Nation in this present year One thousand six hundred fourty and eight in the Counties of Kent Essex Surry Sussex Middlesex and many other Counties and places in England and Wales and also by Sea And particularly He the said CHARLES STVART hath for that purpose given Commission to his Son the Prince and others whereby besides multitudes of other Persons many such as were by the Parliament intrusted and imployed for the safety of the Nation being by Him or His Agents Corrupted to the betraying of Their Trust and revolting from the Parliament have had entertainment and Commission for the continuing and renewing of War and Hostility against the said Parliament and People as aforesaid By which cruel and unnatural Wars by Him the said CHARLES STVART levyed continued and renewed as aforesaid much Innocent Blood of the Free-people of this Nation hath been spilt many Families have been undone the Publike Treasury wasted and exhausted Trade obstructed and miserably decayed vast expence and damage to the Nation incurred and many parts of the Land spoyled some of them even to Desolation And for further prosecution of His said evil Designs He the said CHARLES STVART doth still continue his Commissions to the said Prince and other Rebels and Revolters both English and Forraigners and to the Earl of Ormond and to the Irish Rebels and Revolters associated with him from whom further Invasions upon this Land are threatened upon the procurement and on the behalf of the said Charls Stuart All which wicked Designs Wars and evil Practises of Him the said CHARLES STVARRT have been and are carryed on for the advancing and upholding of the Personal Interest of Will and Power and pretended Prerogative to Himself and his Family against the publique Interest Common Right Liberty Justice and Peace Of the People of this Nation by and for whom he was entrusted as aforesaid By all which it appeareth that He the said CHARLS STUART hath been and is the Occasioner Author and Contriver of the said Vnnatural Cruel and bloody Wars and therein guilty of all the Treasons Murthers Rapines Burnings Spoils Desolations Damage and Mischief to this Nation acted or committed in the said Wars or occasioned thereby And the said John Cook by Protestation saving on the behalf of the People of England the liberty of Exhibiting at any time hereafter any other Charge