La nazione britannica una storia / da George MWrong . th. La morte non è terribile per me ; benedico il mio Dio che ho preparato. In una mattinata gelida, l'oOth di gennaio 1649, con le sue guardie camminò rapidamente da St. JamessPalace attraverso il parco a Whitehall. Per due o tre ore era tenuto in attesa in una camera da letto del palazzo, ma circa due nel pomeriggio è venuto la scena finale.Quando il re ha fatto un passo attraverso una finestra della sala banale-queting al catlold era in presenza di una folla di agreat che si intronava le strade, le finestre, e theroofs delle case, mentono ha parlato, ma la voce di liis potrebbe hardlyreach oltre t

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The British nation a history / by George MWrong . th. Death is not terrible to me ; I bless my God I amprepared. On a frosty morning, the oOth of January, 1649, with his guards he walked rapidly from St. JamessPalace across the park to Whitehall. For two or threehours he was kept waiting in a bedchamber of the palace, but about two in the afternoon came the final scene.When the king stepped through a window of the ban-queting hall to the scatlold he was in the presence of agreat crowd thronging the streets, the windows, and theroofs of houses, lie spoke, but liis voice could hardlyreach beyond those with him on the scatTold. I am the THE STUART MONARCHY 377 martyr of the people, he said, and in his heart he believedthat the laws and liberties of England were safer in akings hands than in those of the Parliament. The axe—the very one probably which had been used on Strafford—fell, and the executioner silently held up the bleedinghead. A groan, such a groan, said an eye witness, asI never heard before and desire that I may never hear. The Execution of Cuaki.es I. again, burst from the crowd, and it was typical of thehorror with Avhich all Europe regarded the final act ofthe army. Summary of Dates The Hampton Court Conference was in 1G04. The Gnnpow-der Plot was in 1605. The Colony of Virginia was founded in 1607.In 1614 James dissolved his second Parliament (The Addled Parlia-ment) in anger, and imprisoned some members. The PlymouthColony began in 1620. James Is third Parliament impeached and 378 THE BRITISH NATION forced the dismissal of Francis Bacon in 1621. >Var with Spainbrolie out in 1624. James died in 1625, and the struggle betweenKing and Parliament soon became acute under Charles I. The Com-mons drew up The Petition of Right in 1628, and in 1629Charles dissolved Parliament, sent Sir John Eliot and others tothe Tower, and ruled for eleven years without a Parliament. TheColony of Massachusetts Bay was founded in 1630. Wentworth wentto Ireland in 1688 as L

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