Execution of King Charles

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When Charles was beheaded on January 30, 1649, Phillip Henry records that a moan was heard from the assembled crowd, some of whom then dipped their handkerchiefs in his blood, thus starting the cult of the Martyr King.

Source

Charlotte M. Yonge Young Folks' History of England (Boston: D. Lothrop & Co., 1879) 283

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