Above : Illustrating Picture Of The Civil War The Act for the settling of Ireland, which passed the English Parliament in August 1652, divided the inhabitants of Ireland into classes, according to the degree to which they were, or were supposed to be, implicated in the lately suppressed rebellion. First came a list of 105 persons, including most of the surviving leaders, who were condemned by name to death. The number executed under this clause was small. ... Read More

Above : Picture Of Charles I In the Declaration issued from Breda before his return to England, Charles had promised that, with certain exceptions—those, as it afterwards appeared, of the regicides who had signed Charles I*s death-warrant—none of his subjects, " of what degree of guilt soever," should find, that " any crime whatsoever " committed against either his father or himself should " ever rise in judgment or be brought in question against any of them, to the least endangerment of ... Read More