Five years afterwards, when
the loyal and learned divine was at Christ Church, Oxford, we
find his name to a copy of Latin verses, addressed to the
Protector on his conclusion of a treaty with the States of
Holland. This, no doubt, was a mere college exercise. See _Musae
Oxoniensies_, 1654.
The Journals of the Commons show, either that nothing was done, or that
it was thought fit to enter nothing on these eventful days. On the day
of the execution there is only the following remarkable entry:--
"Ordered, _That the common post be stayed until to-morrow morning 10
o'clock_."
On the 31st, Commissary-general Ireton reports a paper of divers
particulars touching the King's body, his George, his diamond, and two
seals. The question being put, that the diamond be sent to Charles
Stuart, son of the late King, commonly called Prince of Wales, _it
passed with the negative_. The same question was then put, separately,
as to the garter, the George, and the seals: as to each, it passed in
the negative.
When the news of the decapitation of the King reached Scotland, that
loyal people were moved with horror and indignation.
Most of the gentry put on mourning; the chair of state in the parliament
house, the uppermost seats in the kirks, and almost all the pulpits,
were clothed in black.
The body of the King being embalmed, under the orders of Herbert and
bishop Juxon, was removed to St.
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