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January, 1649. After seven many years of fighting in the bloodiest warfare in Britain's record, Parliament possessed overpowered Ruler Charles I and today faced a problem: what to do with a defeated king, a king who refused to surrender? Parliamentarians settled to do the unthinkable, to disregard the Divine Right of Kings and carry Charles I to take into account the appalling anguish and slaughter endured by his people. A tribunal of 135 men was hastily collected in London, and although Charles refused to acknowledge the power of his subjects to try him, the death phrase was unanimously handed down. By using an icy winter's day on the scaffold outside Whitehall, in an event unique in English history, the Ruler of Great britain was executed. When the dead king's child, Charles II, was restored to the throne, he set about enacting a lethal influx of retribution against those - the attorneys, the judges, the officers on the scaffold - accountable for his father's death. Some of the 'regicides' - the killers of the king - pleaded for mercy, while others stoically anticipated their phrase. Many travelled into covering in Great britain, or fled to Europe or America. Those that were found and condemned experienced agonising and degrading ends, while others noticed out their times in hellish captivity. Best-selling historian Charles Spencer explores this violent clash of ideals through the individuals whose fates were determined by that certain, momentous decision. A robust story of revenge from the dark heart and soul of royal record and a remarkable insight in to the dangers of political and spiritual allegiance in Stuart Great britain, these are the shocking stories of the men who dared to get rid of a king.
