the names of the Commissioners called over, James Earl of cambridge,
George Lord Goring, Arthur Lord capel, and Sir John Owen
Knight were called to the Bar.
And the Lord President having made a short speech of the occasion
of their comming thither, in order to their tryall, upon severall
acts of Treason; and high crimes brought in against them, they
were all commanded to withdraw, except the Earl of Cambridge,
this done Mr. Wil: Steel, Attourney Generall for the Common
Wealth addressed himselfe to the Court, and in a very acute and
learned manner set forth the notoriousness of the acts, of which
the prisoner at the Bar was accused by his invading the Kingdom,
and committing many murther, and Rapines, and all this under the
pretence of the Covenant, so that as the War was called Hypocritarium
Bellum he might be justly tearmed Hypocritarium Princeps,
and therefore desired in the name of the people of England, his
charge might be read to him, and he so made answer to it: After
the charge was read, the Earle of Cambridge pleaded, that he was
of another nation, and what he did was as a servant to that Kingdome,
and not as a contriver of it, neither was bee ever naturalized
Earl of Cambridge that he knew of, that he was a prisoner of War,
and had Articles given him. Then the Act for the naturalization
of his father was read, and so consequently of him being his heir.
Then the Lord Goring was brought to the Barte, who after the
charge against him road, pleaded not guilty, and so was dismissed,
behaving himself in a very submissive and respective manner
to the Court. After him the Lord Capell was brought to the
Barre who having heard his charge read, pleaded, that hee was a
prisoner to the Lord Generall, and had conditions given him, and
life promised him at Colchester, and that all the Magistrates in Christendome
if they were united, and combined together, could not
call him in Question. Which being entered as his plea, he was commanded
to withdraw, which he did, having from the beginning to
the end of his staying there not at all minded, or so much as looked
upon the Court, but on the people on all sides with grim and austeer
countenance. The last that was brought to the Barre was Sir
John Owen, who after his charge reading, pleaded not guilty of a
word of it, and so the Court was adjourned till the next day.
The Kings body (for some reasons best knowne to the Parliament
is interred in St. Georges Chappell at Windsor, where some
of his [unr]stors were formerly laid.