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 them, either in their lives, liberties or estates.” This he guaranteed, ” upon the word of a King solemnly given.”