50. King of Hearts.
"The saints think it meet that the Rump make a league with Oneale."
Lord Broghill, president of Minister, and Sir Charles Coote, president of Connaught had shewn enmity to the Rump, who thereupon coquetted with the Irish party.—(Clarendon's Rebellion, vol. iii. p. 434).
51. King of Clubs.
"Oliver declars himself, and the Rebells to be the Gadly party."
This card needs no explanation.
52. King of Spades
"Bradshaw in ye High Court of Justice insulting of the King."
"The King demanded by what authority they brought him thither, the President answered that they derived their authority from an act made by the Commons . . . The King demurred to the jurisdiction of the Court, but the President overruled this." When the iniquitous sentence was read, "The King would have spoken something before he was withdrawn, but being accounted dead in law immediately after sentence was pronounced, it was not permitted." (Ludlow's Imprisonment and Death of Charles I.—Aungervyle Soc. Rep. pp. 62–65).
