Charles Adams 
Regicides [PDF ebook] 
Or the Story of Three of the Judges Who Condemned to the Punishment of Death King Charles I., Of England, Who Was Executed January 30, 1649

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. We have been able to discover no details of that sad ‘de parture. Whalley was at the time an old man of between sixty and seventy years. There was probably a wife whom he would see no more. There was also a little boy, a few years old, the child of his old age, besides several children that were grown and mature, and who loved and venerated their father; for he was a highly respectable as well as a deeply pious man. Gofie, too, could not have left his home Without a pang. A lovely and excellent wife clung to him in that last embrace, and little children sorrowed at the going away — they knew not where — of their fond father.