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39. Underdown, Pride’s Purge, p. 168; Adamson, ‘Frighted Junto’, pp. 46–7, 58, 60, 61.
40. Kelsey, ‘Trial’, p. 593; Kelsey, ‘Death’, pp. 740–42.
41. Gardiner, IV, pp. 281–5; Gentles, New Model Army, pp. 285–94. Extracts are reprinted in Woodhouse, Puritanism and Liberty.
42. Underdown, Pride’s Purge, pp. 166–72; Gentles, New Model Army, pp. 294–300.
43. Gentles, New Model Army, pp. 292–3, 300; Underdown, Pride’s Purge, pp. 164–5.
44. Phyllis Mack, Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England (Berkeley, Calif., 1992), esp. pp. 78–9; Manfred Brod, ‘Politics and Prophecy in Seventeenth Century England: The Case of Elizabeth Poole’, Albion, 31 (1999), 395–413; Manfred Brod, ‘Poole, Elizabeth (bap. 1622?, d. in or after 1668)’, ODNB, 44, p. 837. For women and prophecy see above, pp. 409–11.
45. Brod, ‘Politics and Prophecy’, esp. pp. 411–12.
46. Clarke Papers, II, pp. 150–54, quotations at pp. 150, 151, 152, 154. The vision was later published: Elizabeth Poole, A vision (London, 1648).
47. Clarke Papers, II, pp. 163–70, quotations at pp. 164, 165; Poole, A vision, p. 6.
48. Crawford, ‘Charles Stuart’.
49. For the diversity of opinion on these issues see Underdown, Pride’s Purge, ch. 7; Worden, Rump, esp. chs. 1–3; David Scott, ‘Motives for King-Killing’, in Peacey (ed.), Regicides, pp. 138–60; John Morrill and Philip Baker, ‘Oliver Cromwell, the Regicide and the Sons of Zeruiah’, in ibid., pp. 14–35.
50. Gentles, New Model Army, pp. 300–302, quotation at p. 302.
51. Gardiner, IV, pp. 288–91, quotation at p. 290; CJ, vi, 110–11.
52. Gardiner, CD, pp. 357–8; Kelsey, ‘Trial’, pp. 588–94; Kelsey, ‘Death’, pp. 743–4. For a full discussion of the tensions over the purpose and meaning of the enabling legislation see Kelsey, ‘Ordinance’.
53. Kelsey, ‘Trial’, pp. 595–8; Kelsey, ‘Death’, pp. 733–4; C. V. Wedgwood, The Trial of Charles I (London, 1964), esp. pp. 123–7. For the full range of motives in allowing reporting of the trial see Jason Peacey, ‘Reporting a Revolution: A Failed Propaganda Campaign’, in Peacey (ed.), Regicides, pp. 161–80. For a sample of reports see Joad Raymond (ed.), Making the News: An Anthology of the Newsbooks of Revolutionary England, 1641–1660 (Moreton-in-Marsh, 1993), ch. 5.
54. The charges are reprinted in Kelsey, ‘Trial’, pp. 598–601; Kelsey, ‘Death’, pp. 734–5; Gardiner, CD, pp. 371–4, quotation at pp. 373–4.
55. ‘he has been the author and continuer of a most unjust war, and is consequently guilty of all the treason it contains and of all the innocent blood, rapine, spoil, and mischief to the kingdom acted or occasioned thereby’: A remonstrance of his excellency, p. 24; for the phrase quoted in the text see p. 23.
56. Kelsey, ‘Trial’, pp. 598–602; Kelsey, ‘Death’, pp. 734–5. For detailed accounts of the proceedings See also Wedgwood, Trial, chs. 6–8 and Gardiner, IV, chs. 70–71.
57. Kelsey, ‘Trial’, p. 616.
58. Ibid., pp. 602–10; Kelsey, ‘Death’, pp. 743–5.
59. Kelsey, ‘Trial’, pp. 607–10; for the text of the King’s reasons see Gardiner, CD, pp. 374–6.
60. Kelsey, ‘Trial’, pp. 610–12; Kelsey, ‘Death’, pp. 745–9.
61. Kelsey, ‘Trial’, p. 614; Gardiner, IV, pp. 311–13.
62. Kelsey, ‘Death’, pp. 749–51.
63. Kelsey, ‘Death’, pp. 750–51; Gardiner, IV, pp. 316–18; for the element of negotiation in court, including the possibility of pardon, see Cynthia Herrup, The Common Peace: Participation and the Criminal Law in Seventeenth-Century England (Cambridge, 1987), ch. 6; for the exercise of discretion as an aspect of power in legal contexts see Krista J. Kesselring, Mercy and Authority in the Tudor State (Cambridge, 2003): in this case to pardon Charles would have been further to subject him to a higher authority.
64. Gardiner, IV, pp. 278–80; Ian Gentles, ‘Harrison, Thomas (bap. 1616, d. 1690)’, ODNB, 25, pp. 529–33.
65. Perfect Occurrences (22–30 December 1648), p. 778 (I am grateful to Keith Lindley for this reference); Kelsey, ‘Death’, pp. 731–2; Clarendon, IV,