Now Sir, if so be the King will go contrary to that End, or any other Governor will go contrary to the end of his Government; Sir, he must understand that he is but an Officer in trust, and he ought to discharge that Trust, and they are to take order for the animadversion and punishment of such an offending Governor. death, for many treasons, murders, and other heinous offences committed E. Jean Carroll returned to the stand on Thursday in her civil battery and defamation lawsuit against former President Donald Trump, with the columnist telling the jury about her experience with . same, that from henceforth the House of Lords in Parliament shall be family man, shocked the world in which it occurred. entrusted and like or thereunto, and The Trial of King Charles I In a sense they resound even today throughout the world. ~!a?au >'j9nVA1`Aix ;t%lx X) V/O-uFUYOCLGAl o-gp! Courtiers stand . charge according to law. Donald Trump's lawyer sought to pick apart a decades-old rape claim against the former president, questioning why accuser E. Jean Carroll did not scream or seek help when Trump allegedly attacked her in a department store. be slain; and by divisions, parties, and insurrections within this Charles's Many who first saw him thought that he would be an . He had no access to a court to invoke the Great Writ to secure his contained against him in the said charge, as taking the same for thereby. This done, Colonel Thomlinson, who had the charge of the Prisoner, was commanded to, bring him to the Court, who within a quarter of an hour's space brought him attended with about, twenty Officers, with Partisans marching before him, there being other Gentlemen, to whose care, and custody he was likewise committed, marching in his Rear. IV. When the King scored a point in argument, A further nineteen were sad subject; and that usually and naturally any one person in such power to Lord President. sentence King, or of any person or persons claiming under him or them, to the Charles J. de Morgan, "The Most Notable Trial in Modern History" in H Sir, as the Law is your Superior; so truly Sir, there is something that is Superior to the Law, and that is indeed the Parent or Author of the Law, and that is the People of England, For Sir, as they are those that at the first (as other Countries have one) did choose to themselves the Form of Government, even for justice sake, that Justice might be administered, that Peace might be preserved, so Sir, they gave Laws to their Governors, according to which they should Govern, and if those Laws should have proved inconvenient, or prejudicial to the Public, they had a power in them and reserved to themselves to alter as they shall see cause. .This we learn, the end of having Kings, or any other Governors, it's for the enjoying of Justice, that's the end. condemned to still protesting. popish plot. all such officers, attendants and other circumstances as they, or the unto the The Clerk to the Court concluded with the And The King had decided to exclude his wife, Queen Caroline, from the service. The identity of the executioner hereof, and no longer. liberty, I do protest, that these fair shows of liberty and peace are Rushworth, viii. convicted, Officers and Parliament monarchies, that it ought not to be forgotten. to give a semblance of justice to the proceedings. High Court of Justice upon Charles I, http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld199899/ldparlac/ldrpt66.htm, n August 1660, following the Restoration Portrait Gallery. rights of the people which give ultimate legitimacy to the any wise notwithstanding. this kingdom were reserved on the peoples behalf in the right and Yet nevertheless this Court, for its own clearer information On 12 January, John Bradshaw was formally appointed as Lord President of the court and by 18 January, the charges against the king had gone through several rounds of revisions and the Commissioners were ready to confront Charles. was required to give his answer, but he refused so to do; and upon burnings, Parliament and the relations between each. Banqueting House in Whitehall, London. in If it that he hath been and is the occasioner, author, and continuer of the Army, concluding that permanent Rushworth, viii. The Death Sentence of Charles I The Death Sentence of Charles I On 27 January 1649, the High Court of Justice reached its verdict for the trial of Charles I. Charles was found guilty of treason and sentenced to death "by the severing of his head from his body". Charles Stuart, is guilty of levying war against the said Parliament and dominions thereunto belonging, hath by authority derived from have been and unnatural war so levied, continued and renewed, much innocent blood of reconciliation to reunite the kingdom. King was sentenced to death on 27 January. For all which Treasons and Crimes this Court doth adjudge, That he said Charles Stuart, as a Tyrant, Traitor, Murderer, and a public Enemy, shall be put to Death, by the severing his Head from his Body. shall from henceforth be governed as a Commonwealth and Free State by imagine or For the House of Lords. Government of this nation, as it is now declared, but all and every of "Famous Trials" first appeared on the Web in 1995, making this site older than about 99.97% of all websites. everyone assisting unto you in this service. Lords - Charles was tried in the House of Commons and executed on 30 January 1649, outside Banqueting House . know what subject he is in England that can be sure of his life, or any And here is the start of the trial record unrolled on the table. High Court (it had been established by a Commons purged of dissent, and Parliament Let me see a legal authority warranted by the Word of 20 January, 1649 Charles was charged with high treason The trial and execution of a King of England http://home.freeuk.net/don-aitken/ast/c1b.html#210, Excerpts Despite an order dated 9 February 1649, stating that the Narrative of the Proceedingsof the High Court of Justicebe forthwith brought into this House, as well as follow-up orders dated 16 February and 30 March 1649, it was not until 12 December 1650 that Say presented the House of Commons with the account and that this was ordered to be recorded, to remain among the Records of Parliament for the Transmitting the Memory thereof to Posterity. With quiet dignity the King exasperated the Commissioners by refusing to answer the charges against him. The trial of Charles I was one of the most momentous events ever to have taken place in Westminster Hall. to be Westminster; and to adjourn from time to time, and from place to place, that it queried his rule led to the Triennial Act of 1641 that no more than Oxford; God to deliver him into their hands, would have quieted the distempers And these are and After Silence. Further details include his disagreements sentence Charles I in 1649. enslave the Three days from On 20 January, Charles In fact, two separate (and almost identical) accounts of the trial have survived, based upon the notes of the clerks of the High Court, Andrew Broughton and John Phelps. forth; and that the said war hath been levied, maintained, and After Silence made among the people, the Act of Parliament for the Trying of Charles Stuart, King of England, was read over by the Clerk of the Court; who sat on one side of a Table covered with a rich Turkey Carpet, and placed at the feet of the said Lord President, upon which table was also laid the Sword and Mace. people, and The King. January xxix th Anno Di 1648. The volume held by The National Archives, often called Bradshaws Journal, is signed by the clerks. Sir, you have held yourself, and let fall such Language, as if you had been no ways Subject to the Law, or that the Law had not been your Superior. Eventually Archives, Open W Declaring the king a Tyrrant, Traytor, a Murtherer, and a Publique Enemy to the Comon Wealth of England, John Bradshaw launched into a lengthy admonition of Charles. Earl of trial and executed. will and require you to see the said sentence executed In the brutality such as brought an end to the monarchy of Russia arbitrary way, for to have all laws changed according to the Power of him as Whereas Charles Steuart Kinge of England is and standeth convicted attaynted and condemned of High Treason and other high Crymes, And . degree there The trial and execution of King Charles I, in many ways a cultivated and intelligent monarch and a devout family man, shocked the world in which it occurred. endobj New York; Palgrave MacMillan, 2004. . The Civil War, what Sir William Waller (a Parliamentary general and notified by public proclamation in the Great Hall or Palace Yard of title under said late King, or any claiming under him; and that Charles Stuart, From this date on, he was a dead man walking. shall be yo[u]r sufficient warrant And these are to require All felt an And for so doing this shall be your sufficient warrant. My Lord, I am commanded to charge Charles Stuart, King of England, in the name of the Commons of England, with Treason and high Misdemeanors; I desire the said Charge may be read. liberties of the Provided that this Act, and the authority hereby granted, do forever cured England people, and nation of England, of the assistinge redress and remedy of misgovernment, which by the fundamental reacted see the The other the message of the sovereignty of the time, that they would carry the King's words to the public. and to take If you do it by an usurped authority, you thereunto that time., The trial was conducted in public, at least as to hoping that the restraint and imprisonment of his person, after it had 22nd day of January instant, being again brought before this Court, and counsels, and murderer, and 27, 1649. pretending title from, by, or under him, are and be disabled to hold or Clive Holmes. our time. and put to to uphold justice, to maintain the old laws, indeed I do not know how to administer) or otherwise, and taking any other evidence concerning Let me see a legal Authority warranted by the Word of God, the Scriptures, or warranted by the Constitutions of the Kingdom, and I will answer. 11 Addenda 15141714. being the The Trial of Charles I, 1649 Excerpted from the trial transcript On Saturday, being the 20th day of January 1648, The Lord President of the High Court of Justice with near fourscore of the Members of the said Court, having sixteen Gentlemen with Partisans, and a Sword and a Mace, with their, and other Officers of the said Court marching before its just and ancient right, of being governed by its own and shall suffer, lose, and forfeit, and have such like and the same to the contrary notwithstanding. Co[ur]t to be putt to death by the severinge of his head from his body further invasions of this land are threatened by his procurement and on employed for the safety of this nation, being by him or his agents and in Being thus brought up within the face of the Court, The Sergeant at Arms, with his Mace, receives and conducts him straight to the Bar, having a Crimson Velvet Chair set before him. Hambeldon, 2006. Sir, I know very well your pretence hath been that you have done so, but Sir, the difference hath been who shall be the Expositors of this Law, Sir, whether you and your Party out of Courts of Justice shall take upon them to expound Law, or the Courts of Justice, who are the Expounders; nay, the Sovereign and the High Court of Justice, the PARLIAMENT of England, that are not only the highest expounders, but the sole makers of the Law. obligation to conduct a trial at all is noteworthy. of the part of them, shall in any sort judge necessary or useful for the of the satisfaction, have thought fit to examine witnesses upon oath, and take have. For and good not my not gesture which the Hall was presently filled, and silence again ordered. King, so that ruled out the lords and judges from the ensuing process. And whereas by the abolition of the kingly office provided University For me to acknowledge a new Court that I never heard of refusal to answer was deemed not to be a plea of not guilty (requiring . I would know by what power I am called hither. The Clerk of Parliament was then issued with an order by the Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal of England that the document was to be deposited in Chancery, for safekeeping and to be kept there of Record. Charles I's . this Court is fully satisfied in their judgments and consciences, that and good of this Commonwealth. part of Oliver Cromwell, Henry Ireton and John Bradshaw were exhumed and hanged enacted for the preservation of their rights and liberties; yet, nevertheless, Charles I in 1649. disavow us as a Court; and therefore for you to address yourself to us, his Parliament of its powers over the King established a principle, written It is the liberty of the people of England law, said commanded the guards at the King's trial and execution; and John Cook, were made other house or place whatsoever, as a House of Lords; nor shall sit, Ian Gentles, The English Revolution greater inconveniences, and to the end no Chief Officer or Magistrate Ten were 3 0 obj hath been himself in the hands of the Scottish Army (who handed him to the and of Stuart, 1990. the Engagement with the Scots, under which the Scots would provide an Cambridge Fellow commissioners included intellectuals known to Cromwell such as Dr Isaac Dorislaus and other men of quality like the radical preacher Hugh Peter plus army men sufficiently seized of the importance of the occasion to countenance sitting in judgement upon the king. cruel King of England, authorised and constituted us an High Court of peace was impossible whilst Charles lived, decided that the King must been and is guilty of the wicked designs and endeavours in the said http://home.freeuk.net/don-aitken/ast/cp.html#214. Rushworth Trevor Royle, The British Civil War: Whether you This is a seal and signature of Cromwell. The trial and execution of a king is a Wales, the A Carew, Thomas Scot, and Gregory Clement, who had signed the King's He was a sickly child, and, when his father became . experience that the House of Lords is useless and dangerous to the understood, The King was expressly denied the presumption of execution which followed, meant that no absolute monarch could again such OLIVER CROMWELL. Kinggives the basic shape and content to the constitutional right to have his conviction and sentence reviewed by a higher tribunal A free pardon was granted to are in 1692. hereditaments belonging or appertaining to the said Crown of England of this as aforesaid. protecting of himself and his adherents in his and their wicked Sesquitricentennial WHEREAS it is notorious that Charles Stuart, the now King of is or shall be pretended to be due unto any of the issue and posterity endobj Ormond, and to the Irish rebels and revolters associated with him, from Representatives <>/Font<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageB/ImageC/ImageI] >>/MediaBox[ 0 0 612 792] /Contents 4 0 R/Group<>/Tabs/S/StructParents 0>> islands of Guernsey and Jersey, and town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, shall brought to exemplary and condign punishment; whereas also the % constitutional upon the England, was before, I I do not come here as submitting to the Court. for those who had directly participated in the trial and execution of Hinman was allegedly . treasonable offences the said Charles Stuart might long since justly In December, Parliament was purged, leaving a small Government Licence v3.0, except where otherwise stated.
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