The Putney Debates - The End of the Debate

The leveller spokesman started openly calling for the king to be brought to trial possibly even for his life. The implications of labelling charles the man of blood were clear. By november the eighth, with no conclusion to the debate yet, reached, fairfax and cromwell determined that it was time to put this thing to bed. In the meantime, the king threw a wrench into everything by escaping from hampton court. Supposedly, this was to put himself out of the reach of the levellers and their man of blood stuff. But it's just as likely that he was looking to get himself set up in a spot where he could more freely deal with the sc