Excerpt from The Imprisonment and Death of King Charles I., Related by One of His Judges: Being Extracts From the Memoirs of Edmund Ludlow, the Regicide, With a Collection of Original Papers Relating to the Trial of the King Mr Hudson was brought to London and, upon examination at the bar of the house of Commons, confessed some things about the King's journey from Oxford. Commissioners being appointed by the parliament to be sent down to the Scots army in this conjuncture, they made choice of two Lords, of whom the Earl of Pembroke was one, and four of the Commons. In which number Col. Brown the woodmonger being nominated to that employment, he turned about to me, who sat behind him in the house, assuring me that he would be ever true to us. And truly I then believed him, having met him at the beginning of the war in Smithfield buying horses for the service of the parliament; where he spoke very affectionately con cerning their undertaking, and served them afterwards very successfully, especially at Abingdon, as I mentioned before. But this wretched man soon discovered the corruption of his nature, and malignity that lay concealed in his heart: for no sooner had the King found out his ambitious temper, and cast some slight favours upon him, giving him a pair of silk stockings with his own hand, but his low and abject original and education became so prevalent in him, as to transform him into an agent and spy for the King proving, as will be hereafter related, one of the bloodiest butchers of the parliament's friends. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.