We are not here
_jus dare_ but _jus dicere_. We cannot be unmindful of what the
Scripture tells us; 'For to acquit the Guilty is of equal
Abomination, as to condemn the Innocent.' We may not acquit the
Guilty. What sentence the law affirms to a Traitor, Tyrant, a
Murderer, and a public Enemy to the Country, that Sentence you
are now to hear read unto you; and that is the Sentence of the
Court.

The Lord President commands the sentence to be read: make an O yes, and
command Silence while the Sentence is read.

O yes made: Silence commanded.

The Clerk read the Sentence, which was drawn up in Parchment:

'Whereas the Commons of England in Parliament had appointed them
an High Court of Justice, for the Trying of Charles Stuart, King
of England, before whom he had been three times convened; and at
the first time a Charge of High-Treason, and other Crimes and
Misdemeanors, was read in the behalf of the Kingdom of England,'
etc. [Here the Clerk read the Charge.] 'Which Charge being read
unto him, as aforesaid, he the said Charles Stuart was required
to give his Answer: But he refused so to do; and so expressed
the several Passages of his Trial in refusing to answer. For all
which Treasons and Crimes this Court doth adjudge, That the said
Charles Stuart, as a Tyrant, Traitor, Murderer, and a Public
Enemy, shall be put to Death, by the severing his Head from His
Body.'

After the Sentence read, the Lord President said, This Sentence
now read and published, is the Act, Sentence, Judgment, and
Resolution of the whole Court.

Here the Court stood up, as assenting to what the President
said.

KING--Will you hear me a word, Sir?

LORD PRESIDENT--Sir, you are not to be heard after the Sentence.

KING--No, Sir?

LORD PRESIDENT--No, Sir; by your favour, Sir. Guard, withdraw
your Prisoner.

KING--I may speak after the Sentence--By your Favour, Sir, I may
Speak after the Sentence ever.

By your Favour (Hold!) the Sentence, Sir----

I say, Sir, I do----

I am not suffered for to speak: Expect what Justice other People
will have.

O yes: All manner of Persons that have any thing else to do, are
to depart at this time, and to give their attendance in the
Painted Chamber; to which place this Court doth forthwith
adjourn itself.

Then the Court rose, and the Kin