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nants , insisted upon indictments being presented against him , and he was brought to trial on the 6 th of June , 166 I , and found guilty . From his trial having been
postponed so long and th £ backward , ness of the crown to bring it on , it may be inferred that the king would have been satisfied to have
continued him io confinement , and had no wish to take aua ) his life . Sir Henry Vane himself mentions an unfortunate circumstance which happened at his arraignment , four days before his trial , and made an impression to his disad
vantage ; he then used the expression , * sovereign power oi Parliament , " which he says * Mr . Attorney General writ down , after he had promised at my request
no exception should be taken at words /* The ensuing letter was written by the king on the day after the trial , but whether , after he had seen the Judges who tried him is aot clear , for Sir Henry Vane , who mentions the circumstance of "
their going to Hampton Court , makes use of an equivocal expression as to the time , saying it was Ci after the day of ray trial /' Charles , finding that Sir Henry Vane still persisted in his republican notions , feared his talents and
his influence too much to permit him to exist . But , however valid . such a justification may be for taking away lifc , in the ethics of tyrants , the want of feeling with which he makes the detestable proposal to the Chancellor admits of
no palliation . Here we find him , acting solely from the dictates of his own heart ; ready £ ind willing to break through the most solemn engagements , and desirous to shed blood unjustly for the better security of Jbis power * Whether the
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Chancellor resisted the wish of th * king , or gave way to it , or ulti . raately approved of it , does not appear , but as he had upon other occasions insisted upon the strict performance of the declaration from Breda , and had himself pro .
posed to the commons the expe . dient of a petition to the king , we would hope that he did not give his sanction to this perfidious conduct . Sir Henry Vane was executed on the 14 th day of J une , and the House seem to hava
been satisfied with his fate , for we find no steps taken in his favour , or complaints made of the royal breach of faith . The letter which makes the subject of this article , was addressed , to the Chancellor and was as -follows : —
Hamton Courte , Saturday , two in the aft em done . The relation that has been made tome of Sir H . Vane ' s carriage yesterday in the Hall , is the oc casion of this letter , which if I am
rightly informed was so insolent as to justify all he had done , acknowledging no supreme power in England but a Par * , and many things to that purpose . You have had a true accounte of all , and if
he has given new occasion to be hanged , certaynly he is too dangerous a man to lett live , if we can honestly put him out oi the way , thinke of this and give me some aceounte of it to-morrow , till when I have no more to say to
you * C . R « The beginning of the direction is torn off , but the words , the Chancellor / ' in the Kings hand , remain . The Chancellor bas
indorsed « the King ' s , ' ' and two or three words illegible after . A Mr . West h&s made this indorsemeat , " This letter was wrote bj
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3 ^ 2 Copy of a Letter written by Charles / f .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1811, page 392, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2418/page/8/
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