{"id":109477,"date":"2017-12-09T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T15:15:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-08T10:52:47","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T10:52:47","slug":"english-parliament-authorised-trial-of-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/09\/english-parliament-authorised-trial-of-3\/","title":{"rendered":"English Parliament authorised the trial of Charles I, 1649"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\"><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-body entry-content\"><a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/d\/da\/Court-charles-I-sm.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/d\/da\/Court-charles-I-sm.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 240px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 153px;\" \/><\/a>Following  their victory over the forces of King Charles I during the civil wars,  the New Model Army became the most powerful political body in Britain  eclipsing Parliament, which created the army. In the summer of 1647, the  New Model Army took possession of the King, who had been held by the  Parliamentarians, and then occupied London. In December 1648, the Army  again occupied London and soldiers commanded Colonel Pride and Colonel  Rich took up positions at the Houses of Parliament to prevent those  members that opposed the Army from taking their seats creating the Rump  Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Since negotiations with the Crown had failed (partly  due to Pride&#8217;s Purge), the Army&#8217;s leaders and other militants decided to  put the Charles on trial. On 6th January 1649, the Rump Parliament  passed an ordinance permitting the trial to be presided over by a  commission of 135 men: the High Court of Justice. In spite of the House  of Lords&#8217; rejection of the motion and the (obvious) lack of consent from  the King, the trial went ahead later that month.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following their victory over the forces of King Charles I during the civil wars, the New Model Army became the most powerful political body in Britain eclipsing Parliament, which created the army. In the summer of 1647, the New Model Army took possession of the King, who had been held by the Parliamentarians, and then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109477"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}