Charles the Second - The King's Last Thoughts

Former king charles the first was brought to the scaffolding for his execution. He put on two shirts before he left his prison cell, so people wouldn't see him shivering in the cold and think that he was afraid. Charles the second sent the new english government a blank sheet of parchment with his signature at the bottom, a literal carte blanche, a moral blank check. It said, i will agre to anything to save my father cromwell and his government ignored it. For first and only time in british history, the executioner brought his blade down on the neck of a monarch. The crowd only gasped. When charles the second heard of his father's