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