The Roxburghe ballads . power and peaceTo these, that be at Liberty, and wish for my Release. Charles I. We had reserved for this place our careful facsimile of the wood-cut, representing The Execution of King Charles the First, in frontof AVhitehall windows. January 30th, 164£. It does not belong toany of the lloxburghe-Collection volumes, but it befittingly joins thetwo recovered ballads, on the Kings Trial (tune, Aim not too high),and the hast Speech. It is the Frontispiece to this Vol. VII. The original woodcut was a contemporary representation; and indisputablyissued in a quarto pamphlet,
The Roxburghe ballads . power and peaceTo these, that be at Liberty, and wish for my Release. Charles I. We had reserved for this place our careful facsimile of the wood-cut, representing The Execution of King Charles the First, in frontof AVhitehall windows. January 30th, 164£. It does not belong toany of the lloxburghe-Collection volumes, but it befittingly joins thetwo recovered ballads, on the Kings Trial (tune, Aim not too high),and the hast Speech. It is the Frontispiece to this Vol. VII. The original woodcut was a contemporary representation; and indisputablyissued in a quarto pamphlet, 1649, bearing date a few months later than theExecution. It was also employed in a broadside. It is the most trustworthypicture of King Charless Martyrdom now extant. It incidentally shews thatthe King was recumbent, not merely kneeling; that the block was not a high one,but of medium height, somewhat low. A mask was worn for disguise by theexecutioner (Richard Brandon.) The. cuts bdoiv are described on pp. 632, 629 Cbe lamenting; ^atops last jFaretoell. (Princess Elizabeth, at Carisbrooke Castle, 1650). Itosola. — Do you not weep ? Other sins only speak; Murder shrieks out,The element of water moistens the earth,But blood flies upwards and bedews the — Cover her face. Mine eyes dazzle. She died — I think not so : her infelicitySeemed to have years too many. —John Websters Duchess of Malft, iv. 2, 1623. TT was a tender and thoughtful act of piety, one of many proofs^_ of the affectionate interest taken by her gracious Majesty ourQueen Victoria in the misfortunes of the ancient house of Stuart,her raising a beautiful monument, in S. Thomass Church (wherethe leaden coffin had been disinterred in 1793), at Newport, Isleof Wight, in memory of the Princess Elizabeth, second daughterof King Charles I. It is*of white marble, by Baron Marochetti,and represents the girl as she had been found, lying dead, with herface pillowed on her Bible ;
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