Many judges were present besides himself; but he alone had the power to save King Charles or to doom him to the scaffold.

After sentence was pronounced, this victorious general was entreated by his own children, on their knees, to rescue his Majesty from death.
"No!" said he, sternly.

"Better that one man should perish than that the whole country should be ruined for his sake.

It is resolved that he shall die!" When Charles, no longer a king, was led to the scaffold, his great enemy stood at a window of the royal palace of Whitehall.

He beheld the poor victim of pride, and an evil education, and misused power, as he laid his head upon the block.