Tyrannicide Brief: he sent Charles I to die

Read Tyrannicide Brief: Story of the Man Who Sent Charles I to the Scaffold by Geoffrey Robertson. Charles triggered the tragic civil wars (from 1642) when 1 in 10 Englishmen died. But in 1649, Parliament struggled to find a lawyer with guts to prosecute a king who claimed to be above the law. In the end, they chose the radical lawyer John Cooke (1608–60) whose Puritan conscience,…