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    The High Court of Justice was the court established by the Rump Parliament to try Charles I, King of England, Scotland and Ireland. Even though this was...
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    judge of the College of Justice, the Court of Session, and the High Court of Justiciary. The Lord President holds the title of Lord Justice General of Scotland...
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    January 1649) was King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649. Charles was born into the House of Stuart as...
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    the Rump Parliament passes an ordinance to set up a High Court of Justice, to try Charles I for high treason. January 17 – The Second Ormonde Peace concludes...
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    John Bradshaw (judge) (category Chancellors of the Duchy of Lancaster)
    role as President of the High Court of Justice for the trial of King Charles I and as the first Lord President of the Council of State of the English Commonwealth...
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    female) of the High Court of Justice deals with a wide range of common law cases and has supervisory responsibility over certain lower courts. It hears...
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  • which established the Commonwealth (see High Court of Justice for the trial of Charles I). The execution of Charles I was delayed until later in the...
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    President of the High Court of Justice (Judge) for the trial of Charles I in 1649. Lord President of the Council of State of the English Commonwealth 1649–51...
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  • Goffe and Whalley (category Charles I of England)
    Dixwell"). Charles I of England Regicide of Charles I of England List of regicides of Charles I High Court of Justice for the trial of Charles I English...
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    Elizabeth Poole (prophetess) (category Year of birth unknown)
    the cure of the land, and the manner thereof. London, 1649. An[other] Alarum of War, given to the Army, and to their High Court of Justice (so called)...
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  • a High Court of Justice for the trial of Charles I for high treason in the name of the people of England. 20 to 27 January – Trial and conviction of King...
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    created a new unified High Court of Justice, with the Chancery Division – one of three divisions of the High Court – succeeding the Court of Chancery as an equitable...
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    erecting of a High Court of Justice (6 January 1649) Act prohibiting the proclaiming any person to be King England or Ireland (30 January 1649) Act repealing...
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    on with the trial regardless. At his trial in the High Court of Justice on Saturday 20 January 1649 in Westminster Hall, Charles asked "I would know by...
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    November 1645 – 1649) Oliver St John (parliamentary) (May 1644 – 10 January 1649) William Steele (commonwealth) (10 January 1649 – 9 April 1649) Edmund Prideaux...
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    Justice of the Common Pleas was a puisne judicial position within the Court of Common Pleas of England and Wales, under the Chief Justice. The Common...
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  • George Cooper (Poole MP) (category Alumni of Exeter College, Oxford)
    February 1660 he was trustee for maintenance of ministers. In 1650 he was a member of the high court of justice. He was commissioner for assessment for Middlesex...
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    Anne Fairfax (category Daughters of barons)
    court. It was said that Anne could not forbear, as Bulstrode Whitelocke says, to exclaim aloud against the proceedings of the High Court of Justice....
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    threatening to the cleric. In 1649 the Exchequer formally extended its common law and equity jurisdiction, becoming a fully fledged court of law able to hear any...
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    the period from 1649 to 1660 when England and Wales, later along with Ireland and Scotland, were governed as a republic after the end of the Second English...
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    for Scotland in the years 1649 and 1650 and over 300 witches were executed in the trials. Most of these were in ad hoc courts that had a much higher execution...
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    1649 when it passed the Act erecting a High Court of Justice for the trial of the King (when any possibility of reconciliation between King and Parliament...
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    Robert Heath (category 1649 deaths)
    1575 – 30 August 1649) was an English judge and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1621 to 1625. Heath was the son of Robert Heath, attorney...
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    capture and trial of Charles. On Saturday 27 January 1649, the parliamentarian High Court of Justice had declared Charles guilty of attempting to "uphold...
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    trial of King Charles I in January 1649, 59 commissioners (judges) signed his death warrant. They, along with several key associates and numerous court officials...
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    John Cook (regicide) (category Chief Justices of Munster)
    of King Charles I on charges of high treason and other high crimes began on 20 January 1649, but he refused to enter a plea, claiming that no court had...
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    Diggers (category 1649 establishments in England)
    known as True Levellers in 1649, in reference to their split from the Levellers, and later became known as Diggers because of their attempts to farm on...
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    Ajay Kumar Tripathi (category Chief justices of Chhattisgarh High Court)
    was also the Chief Justice of Chhattisgarh High Court. Justice Ajay Kumar Tripathi was born on 12 November 1957. He is the grandson of Late Shri Paramanand...
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    John Lilburne (category Prisoners and detainees of Jersey)
    related to this article: Transcript of Lilburne's trial for high treason, October 1649 "Lilburne, John" in the Dictionary of National Biography Foxley, Rachel...
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    Richard Brandon (category 1649 deaths)
    Richard Brandon (died 20 June 1649) was the common executioner of London from 1639 to 1649, who inherited his role from his father Gregory Brandon and...
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