(EXCERPT.)
=Source.=--Rushworth. Vol. vi., p. 1419.
Now, therefore, upon serious and mature deliberation of the premises,
and consideration had of the notoriety of the matters of fact charged
upon him as aforesaid, this Court is in judgment and conscience
satisfied that he, the said Charles Stuart, is guilty of levying
war against the said Parliament and people, and maintaining and
continuing the same; for which in the said charge he stands accused,
and by the general course of his government, counsels, and practices,
before and since this Parliament began (which have been and are
notorious and public, and the effects whereof remain abundantly
upon record) this Court is fully satisfied in their judgments and
consciences, that he has been and is guilty of the wicked design
and endeavours in the said charge set forth; and that the said war
hath been levied, maintained, and continued by him as aforesaid, in
prosecution, and for accomplishment of the said designs; and that
he hath been and is the occasioner, author and continuer of the
said unnatural, cruel, and bloody wars, and therein guilty of high
treason, and of the murders, rapines, burnings, spoils, desolations,
damage, and mischief to this nation acted and committed in the said
war, and occasioned thereby. For all which treasons and crimes this
Court doth adjudge that he, the said Charles Stuart, as a tyrant,
traitor, murderer, and public enemy to the good people of this
nation, shall be put to death by the severing of his head from his
body.