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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	king_n	let_v	time_n	1,504	5	3.4958	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74823	A perfect narrative of the whole proceedings of the High Court of Iustice in the tryal of the King in Westminster Hall, on Saturday the 20. and Monday the 22. of this instant January. With the several speeches of the King, Lord President and Solicitor General. / Published by authority to prevent false and impertinent relations. To these proceedings of the tryal of the King, I say, Imprimatur, Gilbert Mabbot.		1648 (1648)	Thomason E541_19; Thomason E538_28; ESTC R207216	6,598	16

A Perfect NARRATIVE Of the whole Proceedings of the High Court of Iustice IN THE Tryal of the King in Westminster Hall on Saturday the 20. and Monday the 22. of this instant January With the several Speeches of the King Lord President and Solicitor General Published by Authority to prevent false and impertinent Relations To these Proceedings of the Tryal of the King I say Imprimatur Gilbert Mabbot London Printed for John Playford and are to be sold at his shop in the Inner Temple Jan. 23. 1648. Reader THere being some impertinent and imperfect Narratives of these two days Proceedings of the High Court of Justice concerning the King spread abroad J have for the greater satisfaction of the Nation in their Proceedings thought fit by leave of Authority to publish this subsequent Relation and Account C. W. A perfect NARRATIVE of the whole PROCEEDINGS OF THE High Court of Iustice in the Tryal of the King in West-minister Hall Saturday Jan. 20. 1648. AT the high Court of Justice sitting in the great Hall at Westminster Sergeant Bradshaw Lord Predsient about 70. Members present O yes made Silence commanded The Act of the Commons in Parliment for the Tryal of the King was read after the Court was called and each Member rising up as he was called The King came into the Court with his Hat on the Sergeant usher'd him in with the Mace Col. Hacker and about thirty Officers and Gentlemen more came as his Guard Lord President Charles Stuart King of England the Commons of England assembled in Parliament being sensible of the great Calamities that have been brought upon this Nation and of the innocent Blood that hath been shed in this Nation which are referred to you as the Author of it and according to that duty which they owe to God to the Nation and to themselves and according to that Power and Fundamental Trust that is reposed in them by the People have constituted this high Court of Justice before which you are now brought and you are to hear your Charge upon which the Court will proceed Mr Cook Solicitor General My Lord in behalf of the Commons of England and of all the people thereof I do accuse Charls Stuart here present of high Treason and high Misdemeanors and I do in the name of the Commons of England desire the Charge may be read unto him The King Hold a little Lord President Sir the Court commands the Charge to be read if you have any thing to say afterwards you may be heard The Charge read The King smiled often during the time especially at these words Tyrant Traytor Murtherer and Publique Enemy of the Common wealth Lord President Sir you have now heard your Charge read containing such matter as appears in it you finde That in the close of it it is prayed to the Court in the behalf of the Commons of England that you answer to your Charge The Court expects your Answer The King I would know by what power I am called hither I was not long ago in the Isle of Wight how I came there is a longer story then I think is fit at this time for me to speak of but there I entered into a Treaty with both Houses of Parliament with as much publique faith as its possible to be had of any people in the world I treated there with a number of Honorable Lords and Gentlemen and treated honestly and uprightly I cannot say but they did very nobly with me we were upon a conclusion of the Treaty Now I would know by what Authority I mean lawful there are many unlawful Authorities in the world Theeves and Robbers by the high ways but I would know by what Authority I was brought from thence and carryed from place to place and I know not what and when I know what lawful Authority I shal answer Remember I am your King your lawful King and what sins you bring upon your heads and the Judgment of God upon this Land think well upon it I say think well upon it before you go further from one sin to a greater therefore let me know by what lawful Authority I am seated here and I shall not be unwilling to answer in the mean time I shall not betray my Trust I have a Trust committed to me by God by old and lawful descent I will not betray it to answer to a new unlawful Authority therefore resolve me that and you shall hear more of me Lord President If you had been pleased to have observed what was hinted to you by the Court at your first coming hither you would have known by what Authority which Authority requires you in the name of the People of England of which you are Elected King to answer them The King No Sir I deny that Lord President If you acknowledg not the Authority of the Court they must proceed The King I do tell them so England was never an Elective Kingdom but an Hereditary Kingdom for neer these thousand years therefore let me know by what Authority I am called hither I do stand more for the Liberty of my people then any here that come to be my pretended Judges and therefore let the know by what Lawful Authority I am seated here and I will answer it otherwise I will not answer it Lord President Sir how really you have managed your Trust is known your way of answer is to interrogate the Court which beseems not you in this condition You have been told of it twice or thrice The King Here is a Gentleman Lieut. Col. Cobbet ask him if he did not bring me from the Isle of wight by force I do not come here as submitting to the Court I will stand as much for the Priviledge of the House of Commons rightly understood as any man here whatsoever I see no House of Lords here that may constitute a Parliament and the King too should have been Is this the bringing of the King to his Parliament Is this the bringing an end to the Treaty in the publique faith of the world Let me see a legal Authority warranted by the Wold of God the Scriptures or warranted by the Constitutions of the Kingdom and I will answer Lord President Sir You have propounded a Question and have been answered seeing you will not answer the Court will consider how to proceed inthe mean time those that brought you hither are to take charge of you back again The Court desires to know whether this be all the Answer you will give or no. The KING Sir I desire that you would give me and all the world satisfaction in this let me tell you it is not a slight thing you are about I am sworn to keep the Peace by that duty I owe to GOD and my Country and I will do it to the last breath of my body and therefore you shall do well to satisfie first GOD and then the Country by what Authority you do it if you do it by a usurped Authority you