Westminster Hall, nay, the whole city, rang with shouts and acclamations.

Never did any established power receive so strong a declaration of its usurpation and invalidity; and from no institution, besides the admirable one of juries, could be expected this magnanimous effort.
That they might not for the future be exposed to affronts which so much lessened their authority, the parliament erected a high court of justice, which was to receive indictments from the council of state.
This court was composed of men devoted to the ruling party, without name or character, determined to sacrifice every thing to their own safety or ambition.

Colonel Eusebius Andrews and Colonel Walter Slingsby were tried by this court for conspiracies, and condemned to death.

They were royalists, and refused to plead before so illegal a jurisdiction.

Love, Gibbons, and other Presbyterians, having entered into a plot against the republic, were also tried, condemned, and executed.