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Their names were called, and these following were present:—

John Bradshaw, President.

Oliver Cromwell Robert Titchbourn Humphrey Edwards
Henry Ireton Owen Roe Thomas Wogan
Sir Hardress Waller Adrian Scroop Sir Gregory Norton
Valentine Walton John Dixwell John Dove
Thomas Harrison Simon Mayne John Venn
Edward Whaley Peter Temple William Cawley
Thomas Pride Thomas Waite Anthony Stapley
Isaac Ewers Cornelius Holland John Downs
Thomas Lord Grey of Groby Thomas Scot Thomas Horton
Sir John Danvers Francis Allen Thomas Hammond
Sir Henry Mildmay Richard Dean John Lisle
William Heveningham Nicholas Love Nicholas Love
Henry Martin John Okey Augustine Garland
William Purefoy John Carew George Fleetwood
John Blackistone John Jones James Temple
Gilbert Millington Miles Corbet Daniel Blagrave
Sir William Constable William Goff John Brown
Edmond Ludlow Peregrine Pelham Henry Smyth
John Hutchinson John Moor John Berkstead
Sir Michael Livesay William Lord Mounson Sir Thomas Maleverer
Vincent Potter.

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Here the court sat private, and the draught of the king's sentence being read before them, after several readings, debates, and amendments, they resolved to agree to it, ordered it to be engrossed, and that the king should next day be brought to Westminster to receive his sentence.

They met in the Painted Chamber, according to their adjournment on the 27th, where were present sixty-eight of them, of whom John Brownly and Thomas Challoner were two; the rest were the same that adjourned afterwards into the hall, only Isaac Pennington was not among the former. Having agreed that the sentence should be read that that day in Westminster-hall, it was ordered that the president should address the king according to his discretion, with the advice of his two assistants, and that in case the king persisted to except against the court's jurisdiction, to let him know that the court did still affirm their jurisdiction; that in case he should submit to the jurisdiction of the court, and pray a copy of the charge, that the court was to withdraw

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