Charles knew his power; and Cromwell and Ireton knew it likewise, and knew that it was the power of a man who was within a yard's length of a talisman, only not within an arm's length, but which in that state of the public mind, could he but have once grasped it, would have enabled him to blow up Presbyterian and Independent both.

If ever a lawless act was defensible on the principle of self-preservation, the murder of Charles might be defended.

I suspect that the fatal delay in the publication of the 'Icon Basilike' is susceptible of no other satisfactory explanation.

In short it is absurd to burthen this act on Cromwell and his party, in any special sense.

The guilt, if guilt it was, was consummated at the gates of Hull; that is, the first moment that Charles was treated as an individual, man against man.