luential in opposition to hi

[Villines Balboni]

S and calamities which had resulted from the war, and concluded by
saying that "the said Charles Stuart is and

has been the occasioner, author, and continuer of the said unnatural,
cruel, and bloody wars, and is therein guilty of all the treasons,
murders,

rapines, burnings, spoils, desolations, damages, and mischiefs to this
nation acted

and committed in the said wars, or occasioned thereby." The president

then sharply rebuked the king for his interruptions to the
proceedings, and asked him what answer he had to make to the
impeachment. The king
replied by demanding

by what authority they pretended to call him to account for his
conduct.
He told them

that he was their king, and they his subjects; that they were not even
the Parliament, and that they had no authority from
any true Parliament to sit as a court to try him; that he would not
betray his own dignity and rights
by making any answer at all to any charges they might bring against
him, for that would be an acknowledgment of their authority; but he
was convinced that there was not one of them who did not in his heart
believe that he was wholly innocent of the charges which
they had brought against him. These proceedings

occupied the first day. The king was then sent back to his place of
confinement, and the court adjourned.
The next day, when called upon to plead to the impeachment, the king
only insisted the more

strenuously in denying the authority of the court, and in stating his
reasons for so denying it. The court
were determined not to hear what he had to say on this point, and the
president continually interrupted him; while he, in his turn,
continually
interrupted the president too. It was a struggle and a dispute, not a
trial. At last, on the fourth day, something
like testimony was produced to prove

that the king had been in arms against the forces of the Parliament.

On the fifth and sixth days, the judges sat in private
to come to their decision; and on the day following, which was
Saturday, January 27th, they called the king again before them, and
opened the doors to admit the great assembly of spectators,
that the decision might be announced. There followed another scene of
mutual interrupti
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