Tales of a Grandfather - 3 Author:Walter Scott Volume: 3 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1836 Original Publisher: Robert Cadell Subjects: Fiction / Classics Fiction / Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction / Romance / Historical History / General History / Europe / General History / Europe / France History / Europe / Great Britain Li... more »terary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER XLV. The King taken Prisoner by the English Army, and placed in the Palace of Hampton Court -- His Escape to the Isle of Wight, and Imprisonment in Carisbrook Castle -- Treaty with the Scotch, known by the name of the En gagement -- the Engagers enter England with an Army, and are Defeated -- High Court of Justice appointed to try the King -- The Trial -- Execution of Charles I, [1647-1649.] Our last chapter concluded with the dishonourable transaction by which the Scottish army surrendered Charles I. into the hands of the Parliament of England, on receiving security for a sum of arrears due to them by that body. The Commissioners of Parliament, thus possessed of tl! King's person, conducted him as a state prisoner to Holmby House, in Northamptonshire, which had been assigned as his temporary residence; but from which a power different from theirs was soon about to withdraw him. The Independents, as I have said, highly resented as a tyranny over their consciences the establishment of Presbytery, however temporary, or however mitigated, in the form of a national church ; md were no less displeased, that the army, whoseranks were chiefly filled with these military saints, as they called themselves, who were principally of the Independent persuasion, was, in the event of peace, ...« less