The Trial of Charles I

This volume joins two seventeenth-century eyewitness records of the last months of Charles I. Sir Thomas Herbert, appointed groom of the bedchamber during the king's captivity, describes confinement after defeat in the civil war, the daily routine, and the farewells before the scaffold. John Rushworth, clerk to the Commons, supplies a day-by-day report of the High Court of Justice, the charge of treason, and the exchanges between Charles and president Bradshaw, then the scene at Whitehall and the burial at Windsor. The book is a contemporary documentary narrative, not a later historian's argument.

Bound in dark red cloth with a design in gold, purple endleaves. Transparent plastic dust-jacket. Variant dust-jackets; one with and one without text printed on the inner flaps. Folio Press and J.M. Dent.