Execution of Charles I

P.S.W.E. is referred to *An exact and most impartial Accompt of the Indictment, Arraignment, Trial, and Judgment (according to law), of twenty-nine Regicides, &c.*, 1660. Therein he will find minutes of the trial and *conviction* of one "William Hulett, alias Howlett," on the charge of having struck "the fatal blow." How far the verdict was consistent with the evidence (or, indeed, the whole proceedings of that court with the modern sense of justice), abler judges than I have long since determined. On behalf of the prisoner Hulett, witnesses ("not to be admitted upon oath against the king") de…