The Trial of Charles I: A Contemporary Account Taken from the Memoirs of Sir Thomas Herbert and John Rushworth (The Folio Society)

164 pp. Navy blue cloth, gilt titles and elaborate gilt decorations. Introduction by author. Edited, with a foreword, by Roger Lockyer. Includes frontispiece of Charles I and portraits of Oliver Cromwell, Sir Thomas Herbert, John Rushworth, and John Bradshaw, as well as images of the trial, the execution, and the death warrant. "The trial and execution of Charles I shocked all Europe. On 20 November 1648 the Puritan army - Cromwell's army - demanded before the House of Commons that the king be brought to trial. Just over two months later on 30 January 1649, he was beheaded. In her acclaimed account C.V. Wedgood recreates the exciting events of those ten weeks, bringing vividly before us the main actors in this tragic drama: the calm and lonely Charles I and the daunting, iron-willed Cromwell."