If you set the King on his trial it can have but the one end.
You have no written law by which to judge him, so your canon will be your view of the public weal, against which he has most grievously offended.

It is conceded your verdict must be guilty and your sentence death.

Once put him on trial and you unloose a great stone in a hill-side which will gather speed with every yard it journeys.

You will put your King to death, and in whose name ?" Cromwell raised his head which he had sunk between his hands.

"In the name of the Commons of Parliament and all the good people of England." "Folly, man.