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Coll . Ewers secure the King and carry him to Carisbrook Castle according to instructions from the army . 28 Nov . 1648 . Press mark , E 474 . 4 ° . 9 The Perfect Weekly Account concerning the King ' s Majesty and the Commissioners at Newport , from 23

to 29 November , 1648 . Press mark , E 474 . 4 ° . 1 His Majesties letter to the Parliament , 30 Nov . 1648 . Press mark , E 474 . 4 ° . 12 Heads of Charges against the King , drawn up by the

generall Councell of the armie . 20 Dec , 1648 . Press mark , E 477 . 4 ° .. 25 His Majesties Declaration to the City and Kingdom concerning his present restraint under the power of the sword . Dated at Windsor , Decemb . 21 , 1648 . Press mark , E 477 . 4 ° . 28 ¦ ¦

According to these accounts King Charles not only walked and talked half an hour after his head was cut off , but he did so twelve months after the decollation of 1648 . And now for orthodox historians , accredited in this enlightened

age . Baker when commencing Charles's tragedy , says : —

" We are now come to recite as mournful a story as the English History affords . " ( Chron . p . 518 . ) The question of where King Charles resided between the time of his sentence and that of his death has been the subject of dispute and even vituperation . " ( See

appendix L . 2 Vol . Keightley ' s History of England . ) " The scaffold was all hung in black : and out of a notion that , as he had denied the authority of the Court , he might not submit to the execution of its sentence ,

several staples of iron were fixed in it , and cords ready to drag and tie him down to the block , if he made any resistance . There was no occasion for such precaution . " ( Carte ' s History of England , p . 605 . ) " lis luy volurent couper les cheueux mais il tira vue coeffe de nuict , qu . il auoit mise expres dans sa pochette ,

tant il s ' estoit apriuoise auec la mort , and retroussa ses cheveux dessous . " ( p . 7 , Relation veritable . Press mark , 9512 c . Paris , 1649 . 4 ° . "His enemies deposited the headless body washed their hands in his blood , dipped their staves in it , and offered for money the block cut in pieces and the sand

distrained with gore , and likewise exposed his hair to sale . His body was delivered to he embowelled by some camp surgeons who were strictly ordered to enquire and declare whether he had any scandalous distemper . " •' The vault in which King Charles was buried , was

opened in 1696 . There was found about the coffin a leaden band with this inscription cut through it , King Charles 1648 . "—Echard History of England , p . 661 and 663 . "A relique of the block of sand being applied to a blind womans eyes at Deptford , she was immediately

restored to sight . "—{ Idem ) . "Miracle of miracles upon a maid at Deptford , whowas blind one whole year by a disease called the kings evil , cured by making use of a handkerchief dipped in the blood of Charles . " Press mark , E 563 1649 , 4 ° . 2

" The famous tragedy of Charles First , by servants of Oliver Cromwell at White Hall . " There is no date , but the same tragedy with the title " The famous tragedy of King Charles the 1 st basely butchered , " printed 1649 . Press mark , I 34 , b 10 , 4 ° . There is an address to King . Charles the 2 nd . Eleven years afterwards the

restoration took place , viz ., 1660 . The chief bent of the plot seems to be au intrigue , between Cromwell and the wife of General Lambert .

" We would recommend those among our dissenters who wish to express their approbation of the execution , of Charles to choose some less disgusting mode of doing , so than that of dining on a calfs head on the anniversary of the day on which the Kings head . was cut off . "Keightley History of England , 2 vol . p . 524 .

' 'The royal corpse was interred about a week after thebeheading in the Chapel of St . George ' s at Windsor , in a vault ( where the bodies of Henry 8 and Jane Seymour his wife lay ) about the middle of the choir over against the eleventh stall on the sovereigns side , an inscription in letters of lead being put on the coffin , viz ., King Charles

1648 . "—Cartes History of England , p . 605 . " After some search they discovered a vault in the middle of the choir in St . Georges Chapel , Windsor , wherein as it is probably conjectured lieth the body of King Henry the 8 th , and his beloved wife the Lady Jane Seymour both in coffins of lead . In this vault ( there

being room for one more ) they enteri-ed the body of the King with only the following inscription on the coffin , Charlesi King of England 1648 . "—Bakers Chron . p . 521 .

" There is an account of Charles body being placed in Cromwells coffin , and that on hanging as was supposed the body of Cromwell at Tyburne , there was found on tying the cord a strong seam about the neck by which the head had been , as was supposed immediately after the decollation fastened again to the body . Notice was

given to the court and the body was ordered to be reinterred . " —Harleian Miscellany , where reinterred is not stated . " It has been made a question and a wonder by some persons why a monument was not erected for Charles after the restoration of his son- " * * * " We are afraid tho

reason was that the royal body could not be found : those who murdered it had disturbed it in the very grave and had carried it away to some other place- "—Kennet ' s History of England , 3 vol ., p . 172 .