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and he adorned his ,work with the above representation of the King in prison, which afterwards appeared in other pamphlets. It is remarkable that such important events as the trial and execution of Charles I. should not have tempted the newspapers of the day to illustrate subjects of so much interest. It may have been that such a terrible termination of the Civil "War in some degree paralysed men's energies, and drove all thoughts of trading on such an event from their minds. I have met with tw...o very rough woodcuts 148 Tlie Pictorial Press : professing to represent the execution. One is contained in the Confession of Richard Brandon, the Hangman, and the other forms half of a woodcut frontispiece to a broad- side describing the execution of the Regicides, which I shall refer to in its proper place. The Confession of Richard Brandon was published in 1649, the same year in which the King was executed, and purports to be a death-bed state- ment concerning that event. There were two Brandons, Gregory and Richard, father and son.
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