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.

Title: 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.

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

Collection: Early English Books Online

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it, but he was then pleased to debate the Jurisdiction of the Court, although he was comman∣ded to give a positive answer.My Lord, by reason of this great delay of Justice, I shall hum∣bly move for speedy judgement against him. I may presse your Lordship upon the known Rules of the Laws of the Land, that if a prisoner shall stand in contempt & not plead guilty or not guilty to the charge given against him, it by an implicite confession ought to be taken pro confesso, as I may instance in divers who have deser∣ved more favor than the prisoner at the Bar hath done. But I shall presse upon the whole fact. The House of Commons, the Supream Authority of the Kingdome have declared, (my Lord) that it is no∣torious. The matter of the charge is true, and clear as chrystall, or 0