Continent while several of the regicides were sheltered by leaders of New Haven Colony. With the exception of the repentant and eventually pardoned Richard Ingoldsby, all those that were captured were executed or sentenced to life imprisonment. The charges against the king were echoed in the American colonists against George III a century later, that the king had been "trusted with a limited power to govern by and according to the laws of the land, and not otherwise; and by his trust, oath, and office, being obliged to use the power committed to him for the good and benefit of the people, and for the preservation of their rights and liberties; yet, nevertheless, out of a wicked design to erect and uphold in himself an unlimited and tyrannical power to rule according to his will, and to overthrow the rights and liberties of the people..." References The Hon Justice Michael Kirby AC CMG The trial of King Charles I – defining moment for our constitutional liberties, to the Anglo-Australasian Lawyers' association, on 22 January 1999. February 1649 An Act to prevent the printing of any the Proceedings in the High Court of Justice, Erected for Trying of James Earl of Cambridge, and others, Without leave of the House of Commons, or the said Court British History online Further reading Trial of King Charles I - UK Parliament Living Heritage Full text of the Ordinance that established the court Victor Louis Stater. The Political History of Tudor and Stuart England, p. 144 Charges against Charles I T. B Howell, T.B. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason other crimes and misdemeanors from the earliest period until the year 1783 Volume 12 of 21 Charles I to Charles II: The Trial of Charles Stuart, King of England; Before the High court of Justice, for High Treason Text of the sentence House of Lords Record Office: The Death Warrant of King Charles I Full text of the Act abolishing the Office of King, 17 March, 1649 Geoffrey Robertson, The Tyrannicide Brief (2005), Chatto & Windus Contemporary London Gazette report on the trial and execution of Charles I Footnotes English Civil War Trials in London 17th century in London 1649 in law 1649 establishments in England Charles I of England Treason trials