410 Tyrant, Traitor, Murderer

The History of England

David Crowther

Royal, Queen, Europe, Modern, Parliament, History, Monarchy, Early Modern, Medieval, English, England, King, Politics

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🗓️ 30 June 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Once the decision was taken to put Charles on trial, the Commissiobners agonised about the detail at Westminster; the trial must be seen to be fair. But few can have doubted its outcome. The theatre of the trial was almost a gladatorial contest between representatives of the two sides, in the form of President Bradshaw, and King Charles

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0:00.0	I'm going to do. Hello everyone and welcome to the history of England
0:29.7	episode 410 tyrant traitor and murderer.
0:36.5	Last time we had what I considered to be an action-packed episode.
0:41.0	Though fair dues, we started in December 1648 and we didn't get out so I guess there is that but look what a month we had
0:49.0	Pride's Purge a revolutionary and military coup which put the radicals back in charge we have heard
0:54.9	about the white all debates which created a new constitution for parliament to
1:00.2	presumably implement in the few months that remain to them.
1:03.4	After all, there must be new elections by April 1649.
1:07.8	As regards to the king, parliament must have looked at all the options.
1:13.0	An unfortunate accident, court-martial, forced abdication,
1:18.0	and decided on the most demanding route of all
1:21.0	a path never before walked, to put their head of state their divinely
1:25.1	appointed monarch on trial in public for all the world to see for his life. So today we better see how that goes for everyone. Just
1:37.9	a word about the general shape of things. The most important thing about
1:41.9	this is not that one man gets killed.
1:44.4	It is that this is where the English revolutionary happens.
1:48.5	Of course it's important that a monarch is held to account by legal process for the first time ever, but the constitutional
1:55.3	changes they need to make on the way are probably more so.
1:59.8	The Revolutionary House of Commons had a strategy which contained almost unbearable tensions,
2:05.3	which Charles would cleverly exploit with enormous skill and dignity.
2:10.6	They chose an open and legal approach to help everyone see that justice had been done
2:17.0	so that as many people as possible could come to accept the new regime, if not happily, at least in good conscience.
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