. An English history with illustrations and maps/ by Symes ; adapted for use in Canadian elementary schools by George M. Wrong. to try him and the judgment was a foregone kingship was still looked upon by most men as morethan half divine, Charles was condemned to perish on theblock. THE EARLY STUARTS 175 The executionof the king. On January 30, 1G4J, the crowning tragedy took still believed that he had been rightand his subjects wrong, in all the points so bitterly disputed and fought over, and he smiled in the face of the judge who declared him a tyrant, t
. An English history with illustrations and maps/ by Symes ; adapted for use in Canadian elementary schools by George M. Wrong. to try him and the judgment was a foregone kingship was still looked upon by most men as morethan half divine, Charles was condemned to perish on theblock. THE EARLY STUARTS 175 The executionof the king. On January 30, 1G4J, the crowning tragedy took still believed that he had been rightand his subjects wrong, in all the points so bitterly disputed and fought over, and he smiled in the face of the judge who declared him a tyrant, traitor, murderer, and public enemy to the good people of this realm. He made no appeal against the death sentence, and he went to the scaffold with a quiet dignity, which awed even the soldiers that stood round him. He was going, he told Bishop Juxon, who stood beside him, from a corruptible to an incorruptible crown. Then he knelt down before the block, and in another minute the executioner cried to the horror-struck people the Window in thk rALAcc of who looked on, Behold the hejid wiutkhall in front of which of a traitor !. CiJARLKs I WAS Beheaded. 176 AN ENGLISH HISTORY ) 16251627162816291633 16371640,164I1642 1644164s1646,164716481649 1649. 1646. (Jan.)Aug.) Chtef Dates Reign of James the Fir-st. Gunpowder Plot. The Duke of Buckingham becomes the kings favourite. Reign of Charles the First. War with France. The Petition of Right. of Buckingham. Charles rules without a Parliament. Wentworth becomes Lord Deputy of Ireland, and Laud, Archbishop of declared Scots invade Long Parliament tries to arrest the five sets up his Standard at defeated at Marston New Model Army gains the Battle of surrenders to the Scots at Civil is beheaded. THE STUART SOVEREIGNS James I ICharles I Charles II The
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