. Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places. all;] ARCHBISHOP USHiER WITNESSES THE EXECUTION. 349 have made proclamation that no man, upon pain ofI know not what, shall presume to proclaim his sonPrince Charles as King; and this is all I have yetheard of this sad days work. It has often been denied that \.\\& front of White-hall was the actual scene of the execution of KingCharles I. But the fact that the sad scene waswitnessed by Archbishop Usher from the roof ofWallingford House, which stood on the spot nowoccupied by the Admiralty, establishes the precise o
. Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places. all;] ARCHBISHOP USHiER WITNESSES THE EXECUTION. 349 have made proclamation that no man, upon pain ofI know not what, shall presume to proclaim his sonPrince Charles as King; and this is all I have yetheard of this sad days work. It has often been denied that \.\\& front of White-hall was the actual scene of the execution of KingCharles I. But the fact that the sad scene waswitnessed by Archbishop Usher from the roof ofWallingford House, which stood on the spot nowoccupied by the Admiralty, establishes the precise observed by his own servant and others that stoodnear him, he had fainted away. So they presentlycarried him down and laid him upon his warrant for the execution, too, expressly that the bloody deed should take placein the open street before Whitehall. Mr. J. denied that this was the actual scene, onthe ground that the street in front of the Banquet-ing House did not then exist. The contemporaryprints, however, show that Croker was in error in. WHITEHALL YARD. locality. The Archbishop, says his biographer, lived at my Lady Peterboroughs house, nearCharing Cross; and on the day that King CharlesAvas put to death he got upon the leads, at thedesire of some of his friends, to see his belovedsovereign for the last time. When he came uponthe leads the King was in his speech; he stoodmotionless for some time, and sighed, and then,lifting up his tears to heaven, seemed to pray veryearnestly. But when his Majesty had done speak-ing, and had pulled off his cloak and doublet, andstood stripped in his waistcoat, and that the villainsin vizards began to put up his hair, the good Bishop,no longer able to endure so horrible a sight, grewpale and began to faint; so that if he had not been126—Vol. III. this assertion, for the high road from Charing Crossto Westminster ran then, as now, under the verywindows of the Banqueting Hall. Mr. J. H. Jesseconfirms, by the ev
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