Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1894 — Charles 1. [ARTICLE]

Charles 1.

The anniversary of the death of Charles I. calls attention to the fact that there are several relics still extant of his trial and execution. Sir R. Palgrave, the learned Clerk of the House of Commons, has been able to specify the exact spot occupied by the King during his trial in Westminster Hall; the chair on which he sat is in the board-room of the hospital at More-ton-on-the-Marsh, Gloucestershire: the hat of the president of the court, Bradshaw, who remained covered throughout the trial, is in the Asbmolean Museum at Oxford; the footstool on which the King knelt, or more properly supported him, when he laid his head on the block, lying' down prone, is, with an escritoire and other relics of Charles 1., in the possession of Mr. Martin Edmunds, Walmer, Kent, and the room where the death warrant was signed is a little compartment off the members' cloak room in the House of Commons, and is commonly known as Cromwell's Chapel.