Gleanings, or, A collection of some memorable passages, both antient and moderne many in relation to the late warre.

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Title: Gleanings, or, A collection of some memorable passages, both antient and moderne many in relation to the late warre.
Author: Grove, Robert, 1634-1696.
Publication: London :: Printed by R. I., and to bee sold by William Raybould ...,; 1651.
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Subject terms: Aphorisms and apothegms.
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Remarkable Circumstances about the Kings death.

King Charles was beheaded in that very place where the first blood was shed in the beginning of our late troubles, for a company of Citizens returning from Westminster, where they had been quietly petitioning for Justice, were set upon by some of the Court, as they past by White-Hall; in which tumult divers were hurt, and one or more slaine, just by the Banqueting-house, in the place where the Scaffold stood on which he suffered; 'Tis further remarkable, that he should end his dayes in a Tragedie at the Banqueting-house, where he had seene, and caused many a Co∣medy to be acted upon the Lords Day.