HISTORY
ABSOLUTISM AND REVOLUTION
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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No one had been executed before.
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He didn’t have a trial.
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No one was present to witness the execution.
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It was the first time a king was tried and executed by his own people.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Most of the people who had taken up arms against Charles I seven years earlier were opposed to his killing, if not outraged by it. They knew that it would destroy their cause, though they could not have foreseen how lasting the condemnation of the regicide would be.
Detailed explanation-2: -At 10 a.m., Colonel Francis Hacker instructed Charles to go to Whitehall, ready for his execution. At noon, Charles drank a glass of claret wine and ate a piece of bread. A large crowd had amassed outside the Banqueting House, where the platform for Charles’ execution was set up.
Detailed explanation-3: -Charles was tried in the House of Commons and executed on 30 January 1649, outside Banqueting House in Whitehall. Following the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660, the Death Warrant was used to identify the commissioners who had signed it (the ‘regicides’) and prosecute them for treason.