"A handsome oak chair that converts into a table once owned by the judge who presided over the treason trial and death sentence of King Charles I is going under the hammer. The chair is up for auction at Woolley & Wallis in Salisbury, Wiltshire, on Tuesday, and is expected to be sold for between 1,500 and 2,500. The inscription on the underside reads: This chair belonged to John Bradshawe of Bradshawe Hall Derby SH presiding judge of the trial of King Charles I."
"Many of them were Cromwell's military officers, who had already an expressed preference to just kill the king directly without the pretense of a trial. There were MPs from 39 counties, and a few dozen members of Parliament who had attended Inns of Court (where student lawyers were trained) but had only learned the rudiments of law to attend to their business and political offices, and a handful of barristers of no distinction. Not a single peer was on the court."
An oak table-chair bears an inscription attributing ownership to John Bradshawe of Bradshawe Hall, the presiding judge at King Charles I's treason trial. The chair is scheduled for auction at Woolley & Wallis in Salisbury, Wiltshire, with an estimated price of £1,500–£2,500. The item is described as a powerful survival from a turbulent moment in British history; table chairs are rare, and one with a direct association to John Bradshaw is exceptional. On 6 January 1649 the House of Commons created a 135-member High Court of Justice to try the king; the court included many military officers and MPs, had no peers, and faced opposition from the traditional legal and ecclesiastical authorities who considered the tribunal illegal.
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