Now therefore upon serious and mature Deliberation of the Premises, and Consideration had of the notoriety of the matters of fact charged upon him as aforesaid, this Court is in Judgment and Conscience satisfied that he the said Charles Stuart is guilty of levying War against the said Parliament and People, and maintaining and continuing the same; for which in the said charge he stands accused, and by the general Course of his Government, Counsels and Practices, before and since this Parliament began (which have been and are notorious and publick, and the effects whereof remain abundantly upon record) this Court is fully satisfied in their Judgments and Consciences, that he has been and is guilty of the wicked Designs and Endeavours in the said Charge set forth; and that the said War hath been levyed, maintained and continued by him as aforesaid, in prosecution, and for accomplishment of the said Designs; and that he hath been and is the Occasioner, Author, and Continuer of the said unnatural, cruel, and bloody Wars, and therein guilty of High Treason, and of the Murders, Rapines, Burnings, Spoils, Desolations, Damage and Mischief to this Nation acted and committed in the said War, and occasioned thereby. For all which Treasons and Crimes this Court doth adjudg, That he the said Charles Stuart, as a Tyrant, Traitor, Murderer, and publick Enemy to the good People of this Nation, shall be put to Death by severing of his Head from his Body.
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A more full account of this days Action take as follows, viz.:—
The King being come in his wonted Posture with his Hat on, some of the Souldiers began to call for Justice, Justice, and Execution. But silence being commanded, his Majesty began:
I desire a word to be heard a little, and I hope I shall give no occasion of interruption.
The President answered,
You may answer in your time; hear the Court first.
His Majesty replied,
If it please you, Sir, I desire to be heard, and I shall not give any occasion of interruption, and ’tis only in a word. A sudden Judgment——