Life in Stuart England 9781841651057, 1841651052
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Charles was executed outside the Banqueting House at Whitehall Palace. As the axe
of a doomed man.'
fell, an onlooker commented, 'there was such a groan by the thousands there present as 1 have never heard before and desire may never hear again.’
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Ernest Croft's Victorian painting shows King Charles on the scaffold immediately prior to execution, watched bj a huge crowd of soldiers. As it was a bitterly cold daj Charles wore two shirts to avoid shivering and so appearing frightened at the prospect of his impending death.
A contemporary print of the trial oj Charles I in Weslniinsler Hall in London. Charles faces the Parliamentary Commissioners whose chairman, William Hradshaw, jeuring assassinatiun, wore a bullet proof hat.
Cromwell gazed down at the king’s headless body laid out in Westminster
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an execution which appalled the whole oi hurope. ’(h'uel necessity,’ he is said to have declared. Parliament aholisherl the monar chy an