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dissenting voice instantly rejected the vote of the lower house and adjourned themselves for ten days; hoping that this delay would be able to retard the furious cries of the Commons The Commons were not to be stoped as they declared they represented the people and that whatever was enacted by them had the force of a law The ordenance for the trial of Charles Stuart King of England was then read and unanimously assented to The King, though produced as a criminal maintained the Majesty of a Monarch, with great temper and dignity he declined the authority of the Court. Three times was Charles produced before the court and as often declined their Juresdiction, and on the fourth they pronounced sentence against him; only three days were allowed the King between his sentence and execution, the interval he passed in great tranquillety chiefly in reading and devotion, all his Family that remained in England were allowed access to him. It consisted only of the Pss Elizabeth and
