The full proceedings of the High Court of Iustice against King Charles in Westminster Hall, on Saturday the 20 of January, 1648 together with the Kings reasons and speeches and his deportment on the scaffold before his execution / translated out of the Latine by J.C. ; hereunto is added a parallel of the late wars, being a relation of the five years Civill Wars of King Henry the 3d. with the event of that unnatural war, and by what means the kingdome was settled again.

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The full proceedings of the High Court of Iustice against King Charles in Westminster Hall, on Saturday the 20 of January, 1648 together with the Kings reasons and speeches and his deportment on the scaffold before his execution / translated out of the Latine by J.C. ; hereunto is added a parallel of the late wars, being a relation of the five years Civill Wars of King Henry the 3d. with the event of that unnatural war, and by what means the kingdome was settled again.

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Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649, defendant.

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London :: Printed for William Shears ...,

1654.

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Charles -- I, -- King of England, 1600-1649.

England and Wales. -- High Court of Justice for the Trying and Judging of Charles Stuart, King of England.

Great Britain -- History -- Henry III, 1216-1272.

Great Britain -- History -- Barons' War, 1263-1267.

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"The full proceedings of the High Court of Iustice against King Charles in Westminster Hall, on Saturday the 20 of January, 1648 together with the Kings reasons and speeches and his deportment on the scaffold before his execution / translated out of the Latine by J.C. ; hereunto is added a parallel of the late wars, being a relation of the five years Civill Wars of King Henry the 3d. with the event of that unnatural war, and by what means the kingdome was settled again." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A40615.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 12, 2025. content_copy

Contents

• frontispiece
• title page
• trial proceedings
  • The First Dayes Pro∣ceeding of the High Court of Justice, &c.
  • The second dayes proceeding against the King, January 22. &c.
  • The third dayes proceedings against the late King at the High Court of Justice Tuesday Jan. 23. 1648.
  • Wednesday January 24.
  • The last proceedings against the King wherein they pronounced Sentence upon him, on Saturday, Jan. 27. 1648.
    • The names of those who were present at that High Court of Justice, when the Sentence of Death was pronounced a∣gainst Charls the first Monarck of great Brittain.
    • His Majesties Reasons. Against the pretended Jurisdiction of the High Court of Justice, which he had intended to have given there on Monday Jan. 22. 1649. Faithfully transcribed from the ori∣ginall Copy of the King.
• The Speech of King Charls upon the Scaffold at the gate of White Hall; immediately before the execution. January 30.
• The present Warre parralel'd. Or A brief Relation of the five years Civil Warres of Henry the the third, King of England, with the event and issue of that unnaturall War, and by what course the Kingdome was then settled again.