The Last Days of Charles I Author:Graham Edwards In January 1649, the "tyrant, traitor, and murderer, Charles Stuart" was tried by a High Court of Justice at Westminster. He was found guilty of having levied war against his kingdom and the Parliament, condemned to death and executed on the scaffold at Whitehall on 30 January. To mark the 350th anniversary of his death, this new book recounts i... more »n detail the events that led up to his execution, including the duration and nature of the trial, the verdict, sentence, signing of the execution warrant, the execution itself and the king's burial. Also included are pen-portraits of the regicides ( the fifty-nine signatories of the death warrant and the further nine non-signatories who were condemned for their roles ( and the fates which subsequently befell them).« less