Season 1 Episode 3
(And Cromwell sent Colonel Pride to purge the House of Commons of the Presbyterian Royalists, leaving behind only the Rump Parliament...)
Which appointed a High Court at Westminster Hall
To indict Charles I for... tyranny
(Ooohhh!)
Charles was sentenced to death
Even though he refused to accept
That the court had ... jurisdiction
(Say goodbye to his head.)
Poor King Charles laid his head on the block
(January 1649)
Down came the axe...
(And in the silence that followed, the only sound that could be heard was a solitary giggle, from...)
Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England
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