LORD PRESIDENT--The Court expects you should give them a final Answer; their purpose is to adjourn to Monday next; if you do not satisfy yourself, though we do tell you our authority, we are satisfied with our authority, and it is upon God's authority and the kingdom's; and that peace you speak of will be kept in the doing of justice, and that is our present work. KING--For answer, let me tell you, you have shewn no lawful authority to satisfy any reasonable man. LORD PRESIDENT--That is, in your apprehension; we are satisfied that are your Judges. KING--It is not my apprehension, nor yours neither, that ought to decide it. LORD PRESIDENT--The Court hath heard you, and you are to be disposed of as they have commanded. The Court adjourns to the Painted Chamber, on Monday at ten of the clock in the forenoon, and thence hither. It is to be observed that as the Charge was reading against the king, the head of his Staff fell off, which he wondered at; and seeing none to take it up, he stoops for it himself. As the King went away, facing the Court, he said, 'I do not fear that' (meaning the Sword). The People in the Hall, as he went down the stairs, cried out, some, 'God save the King' and most for 'Justice.'[22] At the High Court of Justice sitting in Westminster Hall, Monday, January 22, 1649. O Yes! made; Silence commanded; the Court called, and answered to their names. Silence commanded upon pain of imprisonment, and the Captain of the Guard to apprehend all such as make disturbance. Upon the king's coming in, a shout was made. Command given by the Court to the Captain of the Guard, to fetch and take into his custody those who make any disturbance. MR. SOLICITOR--May it please your lordship, my Lord President; I did at the last court in the behalf of the Commons of England, exhibit and give in to this court a Charge of High Treason, and other High Crimes, against the prisoner at the bar whereof I do accuse him in the name of the People of England; and the Charge was read unto him, and his Answer required. My lord, He was not then pleased to give an Answer, but instead of answering, did there dispute the Authority of this high Court. My humble motion to this high Court in behalf of the kingdom of England is, That the prisoner may be directed to make a positive Answer, either by way of confession, or negation; which if he shall refuse to do, that the matter of the Charge may be taken _pro confesso_, and the Court may proceed according to justice.